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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0000, 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 submission > requirements and process. Unless someone would like to volunteer as the > MinTTY package maintainer? > >> In fact, if it operates like an xterm on Windows >> maybe it should even be the default program that is invoked by cygwin.bat. > > I'd certainly like that, although unfortunately MinTTY doesn't quite fit > the bill yet due to Issue 4 about leaving the console window open. And of > course it needs a lot more testing. That's always an irritating issue. > 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. I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that with a shortcut is there? cgf -- 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/
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