Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/12/31/12:29:36
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500)>
>> 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.
>
>?? That's how Windows Cmd.exe works. If rxvt does something different
>then it does some magic and it would definitely irritating to me if cmd
>would /not/ keep a Window open until mintty is closed. If you want the
>"old" behaviour of the command.com/Windows 9X environment, you have to
>use "start".
How does any of the above make this non-irritating?
cgf
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