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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:31:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:	Re: tabbed urxvt?
From:	"Raul Acevedo" <raul AT cantara DOT com>
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That makes sense.  Where do I find the urxvt source archive?  I've been
poking around and don't see where to find the sources for any Cygwin
packages (other than Cygwin itself).

Thanks,

Raul

> Raul Acevedo wrote:
>> Supposedly urxvt 7.x supports tabs via a Perl module by running it as:
>>
>>   # urxvt -pe tabbed
>>
>> Supposedly this has been possible since urxvt 7.3 (see
>> http://linux.die.net/man/7/urxvt).  Why does this not work under Cygwin?
>
> Because urxvt is configured with:
>
>                  --disable-perl \
>
> and perl is required for tabbed stuff to work. The reason cygwin's urxvt
> is compiled that way is to vaoid the 10MB dependency on perl just to
> install urxvt, for a feature most people will not use.
>
> You can easily download the source archive, remove the offending
> configure option above from the handy .cygport script, and rebuild it...
>
> $ cygport rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-6.cygport all
>
>
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