Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/24/12:48:03
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >>>>> "mwoehlke" == mwoehlke <mwoehlke AT XXXXX DOT XXX> writes:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> mwoehlke> Awesome? It appears to be xterm
> mwoehlke> which needs an X server
>
> True for xterm; false for rxvt.
rxvt will use X if the server is running and DISPLAY is set. But it
doesn't *need* X -- try "rxvt -display :0".
> mwoehlke> And I see exactly zero ways in which it is an
> mwoehlke> improvement over Console.
>
> For Emacs users, the keyboard is somewhat better: various combinations
> of keys that include Escape actually get sent to Emacs. I forget
> which though.
Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Space. But you can achieve the same effect by adding
"tty" to $CYGWIN, at which point the differences between rxvt and Console
really do become a matter of taste and key/mouse button bindings (since
with CYGWIN=tty Console will use ptys just like rxvt and xterm).
FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't understand line
wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that wraps multiple times results
in multiple lines. But I constantly run an X server and use xterms
instead of rxvt, so I can't speak in favor of either of them.
> --
> Paul Graham is right.
> --Shriram Krishnamurthi
Points on the nice inside joke here, though. :-)
Igor
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