Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:21:54 +0000 Subject: Re: rxvt, once again... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Chris Game" From: Rui Carmo In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday, Dec 23, 2002, at 11:58 Europe/Lisbon, Chris Game wrote: > That's interesting, but what's the advantage of rxvt over opening > cygwin/bash in a Windows command window, where all the formatting > options (except initial placement I grant you) are available from the > prompt window properties? The main of rxvt advantage for someone who uses Unix terminals extensively is a fully dynamic, resizable terminal window - something the built-in W2K/XP prompt cannot provide. And I mean "resizable" as in height _and_ width. There are others, of course (like X-like copy-and-paste with select and shift-click, better scrollback buffer handling, and better terminal emulation). Most Unix folk that use Cygwin will set up rxvt as their default console (I even have a shell script to launch a tiled set of rxvts with console, Apache and PHP logs), and most of the people I know use the fixed font set found at http://www.aliveonline.com/homesite/fonts/dm_1fixfont.zip (which duplicates a few of the X "fixed" bitmap fonts precisely). With those, Cygwin looks and feels a lot more like Unix. It all boils down to personal preference, of course, but I would suggest people give rxvt a whirl. Bear with it - it grows on you after a while. R. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/