Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

n of the C3. (That also replaced 3DNow with SSE and added CMOV.) > but does not have the supposedly optional > CMOV instruction that other processors of its class have. For gcc, "i686" implies the presence of the CMOV instruction, because, well, CMOV was introduced with

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

t; watts or less, you gotta leave a few things out. Maybe so, but you can't then go out and demand that everyone else doesn't use those features. > This just means my legacy app is stuck on a 60watt beigebox instead C3-Nehemiah? C7? Atom? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

ing on the distro. Perhaps it would work Cygwin 1.5 actually, which you can install using http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe. Someone else would need to confirm this, but I think that was still getting compiled for 586. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

586 support, try Cygwin 1.5. Or ditch Windows and use Debian instead. Or, just to make sure we've got the big clichés covered, compile 1.7 yourself. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

more as I discover things. Any luck with this? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: text cursor is not being positioned

rsions of bash, vi and less? Have you got any stty commands or printing of escape sequences in your bash startup files? Have you customised the prompt (i.e. the PS1 variable)? Also, cygcheck output might give a clue; please see > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html Andy

Re: text cursor is not being positioned

s an issue with bash or the console. > I think this is a clue. I did this: "cat - > fred". The keyboard functions > correctly. > ! ! >  O > Backspace works, ctrl-U clears the line, no erased characters are in the > file. Even the up arrow moves the cursor up a line.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-1

Corinna Vinschen: > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > we're proud to present the next Cygwin release 1.7.2. It's a hippo! Congratulations! Also, three cheers for 1.7.1, which held up rather well for a .1 release with lots of big changes. Andy -- Problem reports:

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

he cyglsa.dll or cyglsa64.dll files *must* replace the old cyglsa DLL with the new one from this package, otherwise LSA authentication will fail with the new 1.7.2 Cygwin DLL. This is unfortunately necessary, but it should be the last time for quite some time. ===

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

ogin -i Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

Andy Koppe: > j8raa6t5a9: >> I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does >> not work anymore.  The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using >> Windows XP). >> >> cygwin.bat looks like: >> @echo off >> C:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] mintty-0.6.1-1

mintty 0.6.1-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a feature release with lots of small improvements, for example, dropped files are now inserted as Cygwin paths and options dialog settings can be specified on the command line using the new -o switch. The mintty manual page ('man mintty')

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] mintty-0.6.1-1

s the SHELL variable according to the user's /etc/passwd entry and to /bin/sh otherwise. And /etc/profile warns about the missing /etc/passwd entry anyway. So I think I'll revert that change. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

to date, and rigorously > tested. Not that I understand any of the details, but there've been changes to atexit() handling in 1.7.2; perhaps they're something to do with this. Might also tie into the thread about rxvt not exiting. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: Fwd: cannot search for -a in man inside mintty under cygwin-1.7

's the *[.T] pattern matched against? > Checking the program chain of 'man' with procps, some other macros are added > already (simply using 'echo'), that's where it could also be added without a > complete new macro package (i.e. without changing grof

Re: spaces in title of mintty command

writing anything you set with the -t option. > mintty -t `one two`    result:  Same as no quotes Because that tries to run 'one' as a command. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Need help on terminal emulation in Cygwin console

hdraw my attempt to help. > > ...are you touchy or sth? Glass house, meet stone. ;) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Installing mintty in a restricted environment

of the > mintty call. Thats the beast that tells mintty to read the > environment files. Not quite. It tells mintty to invoke the shell, usually bash, as a so-called login shell. In that case, bash reads different startup files compared to when it's invoked as non-login shell.

Re: UTF-8 versus utf8

at way? No idea, sorry. Both UTF-8 and utf8 are accepted in locale variable settings, as are utf-8 and UTF8. Btw, what did you mean by "utf8 (which matches my XP machine)" Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Xcompose like input for UTF-8 ?

rd_layout#US-International. If none of the available layouts do what you need, there's also the possibility of creating your own using MS Keyboard Layout Creator. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: UTF-8 in ftp client.

27;t support UTF-8) or have you got Cygwin 1.7 set up to use CP1251? > bash# ftp --version > ftp (GNU inetutils) 1.5 > > Latest version from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/ - 1.7 The latest Cygwin inetutils package does contain ftp 1.7 actually. > So I can use lftp for my purpose. Good. Andy

Re: mintty - changing colours when logging in to remote host

"Operating System Controls"). Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

e -r', which incidentally is part of the POSIX standard and hence available on every Unix/Linux, whereas /etc/*release is not. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html So please just use that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

ws C library (MSVCRT) returns false for pipes, which Cygwin's pty emulation is based on. It shouldn't be horrendously difficult, however, to add a switch for forcing interactive mode to the mysql client. Python does have such a switch. Perhaps you could raise this on the

Re: mintty - changing colours when logging in to remote host

> Incidentally, do you prefer mintty related subjects here or in > mintty-discuss? Both seem appropriate. I don't really mind, since they both end up in my inbox anyway, but generally the more specific list is the better choice, initially anyway. I do prefer bug reports and enhanceme

Re: Problem with Shift+Left or Right arrow in Cygwin locally (Ctrl isn't noticed) and through SSH (escape code isn't interpreted correctly)

sh/manual/bashref.html#Command-Line-Editing > The next step is when I log in from an Ubuntu 9.10 system to Cygwin 6 > using SSH. Cygwin 6? Anyway, the above should work in this case as well, as long as you're using an xterm-compatible terminal on Ubuntu, which you are. >

Re: UTF-8 in ftp client.

lenames to a local legacy charset such as CP1251, which is what the OP appears to be using. Of course he hasn't actually told us, nor has he said whether he's still using Cygwin 1.5. Legacy charsets are on their way out, 'ftp' was always meant to be a barebones client, a

Re: man pages showing special characters

the locale and character set in the mintty options only, which automatically sets LANG accordingly. If you set LC_ALL or LANG to something else in your shell startup files, then mintty won't get to know about it, and you end up with a charset mismatch between mintty and applications running in it. A

Re: man pages showing special characters

are affected? - Can you double-check that LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE are unset or empty and that LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8? - What font are you using? - Is there anything in /var/cache/man? If so, does clearing it make a difference? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: man pages showing special characters

G=en_GB.UTF-8 > >   19:59:25 Paul bibbi...@jijou >   ~ $env | grep LC_ALL > >   20:00:29 Paul bibbi...@jijou >   ~ $env | grep LC_TYPE > > and all man pages - or all the ones that I have checked, which are many > - are certainly unable to render `-' at least. What

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

apshots. So it looks like the termios structure that the keyboard handling reads isn't getting initialised in this case. Workarounds: Add 'set CYGWIN=tty' to Cygwin.bat (or wherever you're starting your session from), or use one of the other terminals. Andy -- P

Re: man pages showing special characters

nsole, Consolas, DejaVu Mono, and Courier New. > I had believed that I had set it to `Courier New' in the first place, so > unless it should render properly under Courier, this is my error. Easy enough to click on 'Courier' instead of 'Courier New'. I checked th

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

e key sends ^@ instead of what's set in the console's stty settings. Yes, I assume it's a Cygwin bug. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

;DEC Backarrow Key Mode") control sequence for the purpose, which is also supported by xterm and mintty: \e[?67h Backspace key sends ^H \e[?67l Backspace key sends ^? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

ms to work nicely and you can easily switch > the backspace character now via the DECBKM escape codes. Nice. The patch looks good to me, and I agree DECBKM is a better solution than a CYGWIN option, because it's standard and because it can be used in remote scripts. Andy -- P

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

hing wrong here. Setting the VERASE key on the console device to _POSIX_VDISABLED (i.e., zero) is perfectly legitimate, it's the console using that as the backspace keycode that caused the problem. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'

uch the same reason, when testing the plethora of supported charsets. How about disabling the extended code points by default and having an option for enabling them? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

de works on FileZilla but not in Putty. Putty uses the ISO-8859-1 character set by default. Change it to UTF-8 on the Window/Translation page of its options. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

mple. > > In cygwin's console window I switched it like you said but it comes out as > rectangles "[]". What exactly is coming out as rectangles, i.e. which letters do you expect instead? Are any particular programs affected? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key

eous Ctrl and Alt key events). Hopefully I'll find a way to fix this without breaking something else again. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key

the hack for telling AltG from Ctrl+AltGr > (which is needed because Windows sends AltGr keypresses as > simultaneous Ctrl and Alt key events). Hopefully I'll find a way to > fix this without breaking something else again. ps: One workaround is to use Alt-F4 instead of Ctrl-D.

Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

he Administrative tab of the Region&Language control panel to Chinese. Hope that helps, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

is, you > change the system's "Language for non-Unicode programs" on the > Administrative tab of the Region&Language control panel to Chinese. Actually there is a way to change to a font not normally available in the console properties without changing the "Language

Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key

oglecode.com/svn/branches/0.6 mintty-0.6 cd mintty-0.6 make Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 64 bit applications

> (though it should lead to > loss in relative productivity approximately on a quarter because of worse > Windows architecture). What? Do you mean because of the different APIs on Windows? Well, yes, that would require extra work, although quantifying that as a quarter a seems rather arbitrar

Re: bash loop using mintty

n some vi-ish way. A vi expert will have to pronounce on that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: bash loop using mintty

d mode. In both cases, pressing Enter a couple of time produces a new prompt. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: bash/readline spinout in vi command mode

vanilla XP installation which I updated to the > latest packages earlier today. Spinning on a 32-bit XP here as well, whereas it didn't on a 64-bit Win7. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.20.1-1

either. Thanks very much, also to Matthias for pointing out the solution. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin 1.7.5-1: backspace does not work correctly when using "set -o vi" in pdksh in the console window

? 67 h, ESC [ ? 67 l) in Windows console. (The first one switches to ^H. You'll need to set stty erase accordingly.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscrib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] mintty-0.6.2-1

mintty 0.6.2-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a maintenance release with a few small fixes and improvements. DESCRIPTION === Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graph

Re: Using nano in mintty : missing cursor

a few bugs around to keep me company. ;) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Is 256 colors possible with cmd.exe?

ely though when programs use console-specific output functions, in particular WriteConsole and WriteConsoleOutput. Which programs are the problem cases for you? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: htt

Re: Using nano in mintty : missing cursor

. Fixed on svn trunk, which will eventually become mintty-0.7. (svn checkout http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/trunk) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: $PS1 doesn't appear to work the same after version 1.7

\] which tells readline not to count it towards the length of the prompt. Confusion ensues. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Resizing a terminal window

erver, then Cygwin doesn't have anything to do with the terminal resize notifications. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Resizing a terminal window

may note that mintty has not set them initially but they get set on > resize - by whatever means... - while in a cygwin console they are not used > at all.) Xterm and rxvt don't set them either. Bash sets them on receiving a SIGWINCH, but not at startup. Go figure. Andy -- Problem r

Re: Resizing a terminal window

nal, apparently independent of 'checkwinsize'. Only the foreground process gets that signal though. So without 'checkwinsize', the setting of those variables depends on whether bash was in the foreground when the terminal was resized. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: V1.7 and endless loops triggerd by junction points

"cmd /c attrib" > Both above means by running it within a bash shell. If I run attrib from a > cmd box it work correct. I don't see how that could possibly be the fault of Cygwin or bash. It's a Windows program dealing with a Windows filesystem feature. Sure you're a

Re: V1.7 and endless loops triggerd by junction points

Matthias Meyer: > Andy Koppe wrote: >> Matthias Meyer wrote: >>> I've installed cygwin 1.7 in Vista and have two problems, not known prior >>> with cygwin 1.5.25: >>> >>> 1) If I login in a shell (e.g. sh --login -i) I can not use cursor or >

Re: rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7

the lookout for ways to improve mintty: what mintty shortcomings or rxvt features make you prefer rxvt? (Btw, the issue with the disappearing cursor you reported is fixed in mintty 0.7-beta1 available from the project website.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: V1.7 can not use cursor or backspace within a shell

>Environment Variables (or thereabouts). > I've removed this items. I will install cygwin again if necessary. Yep, a clean install into a directory without a space in the name would seem the best way forward. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7

Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > On 2010.05.06 8:04, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> Always on the lookout for ways to improve mintty: what mintty >> shortcomings or rxvt features make you prefer rxvt? >> > My preferred ~/.Xdefaults ? That would mean linking against Xlib or reimpl

Re: V1.7 can not use cursor or backspace within a shell

8) > below /usr/share/terminfo ? They're hexadecimal ASCII codes representing the first character of the terminal type. '63' is ASCII for 'c', as in 'cygwin'. '78' is 'x' as in 'xterm'. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

r such combinations that's based on numpad keycodes. The keycodes section of the mintty man page has more on that. Xterm modifyOtherKeys mode is supported, too. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: 1.7.5 cannot bg mintty

I'll look into this when I get back from holiday. Btw, you can also start a new mintty using Alt+F2. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

ert your script to UTF-8. I'm puzzled as to why LANG=ASCII would have worked, since that's not a valid setting. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

use it maps the ASCII backslash codepoint to Unicode yen. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

feed in the same byte again if it wants to. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

if ja_JP.CP932 and ja_JP.SJIS do the same thing? I'm not convinced that adding Shift_JIS to Cygwin as another alias for CP932 is a good idea, because they aren't actually the same, e.g. iconv treats them as different charsets. The SJIS alias is dodgy enough already. Andy -- Problem repo

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

ms that use the CODESET string in iconv end up with the correct encoding. > $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Windows-31J -t UTF-16LE|hexdump > iconv: conversion from Windows-31J unsupported > iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings I had to loo

Re: cygpath behaviour when input is not a path

in a box, depending on the font. But with the '-C ANSI' option, the string is converted to your ANSI codepage, presumably CP1252, whereby codepoints such as U+F03A that can't be represented in that codepage are turned into question mark characters. Have you got any particular reason

MinTTY

nd feature requests can be sent via the issue tracker on the project page. Regards, Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY

The following settings will give you something more Xish: - Looks: Cursor: Block Enable cursor blinking: off - Mouse: Right click action: Extend Copy on select: on Speed: Fastest. Cheers, Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: MinTTY

rd to seeing where you go with this in the future. First off, documentation. :) Thanks, Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY

x27;t got a clue about how to do that. Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the readme into %PROGRAMFILES%\MinTTY and puts a shortcut to the exe directly into Start Menu\Programs. Cheers, Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Re: MinTTY

stead as that one is supplied by cygwin. Basically the last line of cygwin.bat was changed to show as... start mintty bash --login -i Thanks! That's a good workaround. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: MinTTY

ourse it needs a lot more testing. Speaking of cygwin.bat, is that actually still needed? I find that bash can be invoked more directly through a shortcut, and working directory and icon can be set there too. The same works for mintty. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: MinTTY

On the options dialog box, an apply button would be a good Addition. Agreed. I've entered issue 12 for this. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: MinTTY

in a pretty obvious place: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY

this is now a moot question as Gary has taken the option off the table and Yaakov has started work on a Cygwin package. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: MinTTY

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package

Re: MinTTY

ash itself. If there was special support for bash in the terminal, than why not for tcsh, zsh, vi, emacs, ... Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: MinTTY

s the focus. Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY

't implement tabs. I'm not keen on the background image either, but I've entered issue 18 for it. And for installation, the method suggested by Yaakov is the best! Couldn't agree more. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: MinTTY

does work in apps that handle that signal, e.g. less.) - I don't see a config option to set the number of lines of scrollback buffer. Whatever it is defaulting to seems like plenty, but it would be nice to have that in the config dialogs. I've rather arbitrarily fixed it to 16k. A

Re: MinTTY

applications, and X has its own separate keyboard layout infrastructure. MinTTY is a native Windows application though, hence it depends on this key being supported in the Windows keyboard layout. I already accepted the Alt+NumPad issue. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: MinTTY

It gets my +1 vote. Thanks! Oh, and if you want to get rid of the console window when mintty is started from a bat file, I think FreeConsole() would do the trick. I'll give that a try. Perhaps I should make it a command line option if I can get it to work? Andy -- Unsubscribe in

Re: MinTTY

Christopher Faylor wrote: It accesses the console's screen contents through Win32's GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() and displays it in its own window while hiding the actual console. I can't see a way to combine this sort of approach with ptys. If you have a captured interface then a windows cons

Re: xterm and cut & paste

Thanks for that. I find X very confusing and mainly just want a simple xterm to run mutt, slrn and unix like-codes. Fancy giving MinTTY a try? It is (or at least attempts to be) compatible with xterm, but it's a native Win32 program, i.e. X is not required. http://code.google.com/p/

Re: xterm and cut & paste

hs dropped. - Add a context menu when you right-drop which allows you to "Drop path as Win32" or "Drop path as POSIX". I like the second idea, because this is something you'd want to decide on a case-by-case basis. But that would mean descending into the depths of COM/OL

Re: MinTTY - Copy and Paste Issue

nt with PC-style too. Bad decision, because MinTTY advertises itself as "xterm" and Cygwin's xterm and more importantly the xterm terminfo entry use the PF codes. I entered issue 22. Thanks, Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

Re: Could I use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?

yuanyun.ken wrote: cygwin is great, I like it. But when I want to change directory, I have to type 'cd D:/dira/dirb' or 'cd D:\\dira\\dirb'. This is somewhat inconvenient. You might like MinTTY, which allows you to drag and drop files into it. Your example would be inserted as "D:\dira\dirb".

Re: Could I use backslash directly as path delimiter on cygwin?

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:39:10AM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote: >> yuanyun.ken wrote: >>> cygwin is great, I like it. But when I want to change directory, I >>> have to type 'cd D:/dira/dirb' or 'cd D:\\dira\\dirb'. This i

MinTTY 0.3.2

digit. Special thanks to Ashok Vadekar for his help with some of these issues. Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY 0.3.2

reached via the context menu or the window menu (Keyboard shortcuts: menu O or Alt+Space O). Alternatively, the config file .minttyrc can be edited directly. Apologies for the lack of documentation. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

MinTTY 0.3.3

nt the ESC character - The shortcut for the "System Default" font smoothing option didn't work. I've started looking into packaging and cygport, but it might still be a little while. I'll try to submit something before starting work on 0.4.0 enhancements. Andy ps: Is thi

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

thing eventually Any details you might remember would be much appreciated in the interests of bug fixing. Andy -- 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/

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

something like WinTabber, which is a container app that can aggregate any related windows, is a much better approach to tabbing than implementing it separately in each app. Shame it's not Free. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

e window can be counted on one hand... Different people, different preferences. MinTTY inherited that feature from PuTTY, and I didn't see any reason to remove it. Actually I rather like fullscreen mode, not so much for the extra space as for the removal of any visual distractions.

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