Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/06/20/12:27:14
On Wed 6/20/12 17:24 +0200 Corinna wrote:
> On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote:
> > On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote:
> > > On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote:
> > >
> > > > $ echo $SHELL
> > > > /bin/bash
> > > > $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported?
> > > > SHELL: /bin/bash
> > >
> > > No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to
> > > defining SHELL as a shell-local variable. You have to explicitly export
> > > it yourself if you want child processes to see it.
> >
> > OK. Thanks, good to know that.
> >
> > --
> > Still, not sure why I have to export the SHELL var to GNU screen
> > now since in the past several years I have not done this.
> > Recently I stopped using 'putty -ssh localhost' for my terminal,
> > and I'm using 'rxvt' instead, ...
>
> Brr. Why don't you use mintty instead? rxvt is old, unmaintained,
> and it doesn't support UTF-8.
Oh, I was afraid it might be deprecated, I had tried mintty in the
last few weeks, but was unable to get 'WordChars' setting to work
as well as rxvt's cutchars.
I launch rxvt with a shell script using:
font_sz=${1:-17}
cutchars=$'\140'$'\042'$'\047''+-&()*,;<=>?@[]{|}/.:'
# \140 == `
# \042 == "
# \047 == '
# "Rxvt*cutchars" in ~/.Xdefaults ( usually a link to /etc/skel/.Xdefaults )
# but stopped working for me, 1st noticed not working in 2012 or 2011
exec rxvt \
-cutchars $cutchars \
-backspacekey $'\010' -geometry 100x33 \
+rv \
-bg black \
-fg white \
-fn "Lucida Console-$font_sz" \
-sr -sl 5000 \
-e /bin/bash --login
I've been unable to get the equivalent of cutchars to work in mintty.
Putty was good at that, but I stopped using putty because of the 'procps' hangs.
--
Tom
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