Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/05/17:31:36
>> Cary Jamison wrote:
>>
>>> I'm always surprised at how many people recommened using rxvt. I use
>>> it once in a while, but there's just too many things I do don't work
>>> right unless I'm using the regular Win32 console. Output is delayed
>>> until the process exits, input is ignored, etc., etc.
(sorry for messy top-post)
I'm a bit late to this, but I find the sourceforge console project a good
solution:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
The author is currently in beta for the 2.x version numbers, but I've been
running the last 1.x version for a long time and am happy with it.
It solves (or at least improves) basic cmd.exe problems like cut and paste,
fonts, window size (although not dynamic resizing AFAIK), and making your
console window sexy (e.g. pointless transparency tricks, etc.).
I never tried rxvt that seriously because it fails in the "looking sexy"
category for me. But I'm sure rxvt has its advantages. On the other hand, I
get the impression that doing things my way may avoid the problem of programs
that only run on the win32 console (because the sourceforge console program
simply captures the cmd.exe window and sexifies it in a way I don't have the
know-how to explain).
If anyone else is interested in this approach I can provide my config files for
the console program (in xml) and any other useful tidbits (the CygwinHere WinXP
directory/drive context menu I cooked up is useful, although required some
hacks).
P
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