Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/23/17:22:43
On Monday, Dec 23, 2002, at 11:58 Europe/Lisbon, Chris Game wrote:
> That's interesting, but what's the advantage of rxvt over opening
> cygwin/bash in a Windows command window, where all the formatting
> options (except initial placement I grant you) are available from the
> prompt window properties?
The main of rxvt advantage for someone who uses Unix terminals
extensively is a fully dynamic, resizable terminal window - something
the built-in W2K/XP prompt cannot provide. And I mean "resizable" as in
height _and_ width.
There are others, of course (like X-like copy-and-paste with select and
shift-click, better scrollback buffer handling, and better terminal
emulation).
Most Unix folk that use Cygwin will set up rxvt as their default
console (I even have a shell script to launch a tiled set of rxvts with
console, Apache and PHP logs), and most of the people I know use the
fixed font set found at
http://www.aliveonline.com/homesite/fonts/dm_1fixfont.zip (which
duplicates a few of the X "fixed" bitmap fonts precisely).
With those, Cygwin looks and feels a lot more like Unix. It all boils
down to personal preference, of course, but I would suggest people give
rxvt a whirl. Bear with it - it grows on you after a while.
R.
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