Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/07/04/15:17:31
Hi!
Tuesday, 04 July, 2000 Chris Faylor cgf AT cygnus DOT com wrote:
>>CF> I've updated the cygwin todo list with some small and
>>not-so-small tasks CF> that should be done.
>>
>>CF> Is anyone interested in taking on some relatively easy tasks that will
>>CF> improve cygwin functionality?
>>
>>CF> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cgi-bin/cygwin-todo.cgi
>>
>>Speaking of mouse support, do you think it's better to implement some
>>kind of generic mechanism for mapping INPUT_RECORD's to escape
>>sequences, a la console-tools? what do you think about allowing user
>>to change this mapping at runtime via (e.g.) cygwin_internal or ioctl?
>>i'm ready to do this.
CF> I thought that just implementing xterm style escape sequences
CF> would be more than adequate.
actually, i want to write (and actually have already written a part
of) tool, that will allow to "ttyify" non-cygwin console applications.
to run them via ssh, for example. the current problem is than
non-cygwin applications are suited for win32ish style of input, and
cugwin simply drops everything it cannot find in keytable[] from
fhandler_console.cc For that reason, my application now works in
"read-only" mode -- i can see console of "ttyfied" application in my
ssh tty, but cannot send anything not in cygwin console driver's
keytable.
CF> I'm not familiar with console-tools. Is this a linux utility?
it's a set of utilities to tweak linux console driver internal tables
like scancode-to-keycode table, keycode-to-escape-sequence table and
fonts. in cygwin land, fonts and scancode-to-keycode mapping are
implemented by windows, and keycode-to-esc table -- by cygwin. i feel
that it won't be too hard to make this cygwin mapping a bit more
flexible without much bloat.
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