X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:38:15 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3) Message-ID: <20090112003814.GD21040@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090111040508.GA8342@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> 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 Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:32:40PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> Later, if there is enough demand (complaints?) I can look at creating >> rxvt-W (with an alternate XAPPRES name) that is windows-only (maybe with >> the external libW11, maybe just like at present with the builtin libW11) >> -- but no split-personality. > How about creating a rxvt-W that uses Window's style console I/O instead of > a pty? (I have no idea of how difficult or simple that might be). If it was even moderately difficult I would have just implemented ptys using console I/O long ago. Microsoft doesn't want you to use consoles for much and it shows. 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/