Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVb2ta94ssIhmRLFMAb8+EPbi9ckBbTi20RqNWVh6VANN5bSXrALaITo Message-ID: <3F1C2075.7020608@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:18:45 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe Fremy CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with tty References: <200307181147.34980.phil@freehackers.org> <3F184A76.6020009@cygwin.com> <200307211844.32236.phil@freehackers.org> In-Reply-To: <200307211844.32236.phil@freehackers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Philippe Fremy wrote: >>Setting 'tty' for Cygwin will not have any affect on Windows programs. >>Only Cygwin ones. Running a Windows program from a Cygwin shell prompt >>can cause output from the Windows program to get "lost" since they don't >>understand ptys. Use Cygwin's python and you won't have the particular >>problem you mentioned when run from a Cygwin shell prompt with 'tty' set. > > > Thank you for the information. I suppose there is no workaround for this ? > Like launching vim inside a bash script ? The easiest "workaround" I can think of is to avoid the situation wherever possible. If you run Cygwin's vim, there's no problem. The Cygwin distribution doesn't include gvim though, if that's what you're looking for. Another option is Egor's ttyfier program. See: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/