The shell that comes with MSys (from the MinGW guys). Is pretty good, although it does have a bit of a problem with stdout output before a process exits, ie it will hold back output until the process exits.
As a bonus, the file system is a little more sane, and if you are interested in compiling software that is not open source, you are not tied to the Cygwin DLL which is GPLed. I have given up on Cygwin in favour of the tools that come with MSys because they seem slightly better suited to the windows environment. -Chris On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:45:17AM +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:37:25 +0200, Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth McDonald a ?crit : > >> For unfortunate reasons, I'm considering switching back to Win XP (from > >> OS X) as my "main" system. Windows has so many annoyances that I can > ... > >> Yes, I know that Cygwin is out there, but last I looked, they still > >> went through the Win command-line window, which imposes a lot of > >> restrictions. > ... > > Last time I checked, you could install a native win32gui version of rxvt > > with cygwin. This would give you a better terminal window than that > > crappy thing you get in XP. > > Last time /I/ checked (two years ago or so) that rxvt looked nice enough, > but was impossible to use in practice. I cannot remember /what/ the problem > was -- possibly it was that it could only run CygWin-compiled commands, or > something vital only worked with CygWin-compiled commands. Google probably > knows more. > > I wouldn't be surprised if this has improved since then, or if someone else > has come up with a serious Win32 terminal. There is surely a need for one! > > /Jorgen > > -- > // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu > \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
