> > Is this really worth it? Could this whole problem be solved by you > > switching to rxvt? Maybe the only problem is that your xterm is broken. > > Nothing is "broken". The problem is that Cygwin applications run in a > slightly special environment, where there may not be a console attached to > the shell window. This is not a problem for cygwin apps, but it can be for > non-cygwin-aware apps launched from inside cygwin's 'special' environment > that may assume that the standard win32 assumptions hold. This is a > consequence of cygwin providing features over and above the underlying OS: > software written for the underlying OS can't be aware of every possible OS > extension.
The problem isn't unique to cygwin. The same problems occur in any environment that doesn't run inside a win32 console window. eg. most IDEs, including Eclipse and MS Visual Studio. Paul
