On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:35:26PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote: > bjoe wrote: > >> > What I found missing in Mintty is putty feature to start duplicate > >> > session (more welcome with hot-keys) > >> > >> Since MinTTY doesn't have sessions like Putty, I didn't think there > >> was much point in keeping this. > > > > It's because you remove networking function from putty, right. IMHO > > this feature will help many user (especially who come from Windows > > word) > > MinTTY is meant to be a small and simple command line window for > Cygwin with a native UI, no more, no less. It's the classic Unix > philosophy: do one job, and do it well. Cygwin already has all the > necessary network tools in ssh, telnet & co., and they can easily be > combined with mintty, so there was no point in keeping all that > security-critical code. > > > > I don't know the relationship between networking function in Putty with > > duplicate session feature in code point of view, but since this based > > on putty code I hope this will not give some sort of difficulty to > > adopt this feature in mintty. > > It's fairly easy to do actually. Instead of a session it would simply > invoke mintty again with the same command line, for much the same > effect.
Thats all I want, forgive me to confused this with session thing, just invoking duplicate command line. > The concern was about unnecessary features: no point > cluttering up the interface with stuff that can already be done with > system-wide facilities. > > > >> Desktop and quickstart shortcuts already provide quick ways to open a > >> new MinTTY window, and as discussed on a separate thread here you can > >> assign hotkeys to Windows shortcuts. > > > > I run Cygwin from portable media in different PC so Desktop and > > quickstart shortcut not an options in My case. > > Alright, I give in on this one. You could probably use AutoHotkey or > something like that, but I guess including this in MinTTY really is > quite a bit more convenient, also in comparison with shortcuts. > > I'll stick a Duplicate command in the window menu, with disablable > shortcut Alt+F2. Reopened issue 11: > http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=11 > > Andy Thank -- It is easy to say no when there is a deeper yes burning within -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
