X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:30 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY Message-ID: <20081231172830.GA18052@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <0E77A4429F494644A9C7CB6F6F3D2125@DFW5RB41> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DD8@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20081230165106.GA5230@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AB264.8020800@gmail.com> <20081231010535.GA14257@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 -- 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/