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 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021223155900.026e4680@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:02:30 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: rxvt, once again... In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Rui, At 14:21 2002-12-23, Rui Carmo wrote: >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. I've never had any trouble resizing character windows running BASH and Vim under Windows 2K, nor have I experienced any limits to how I can do so. I always have 5000 lines of scrolls back and when I'm dealing with logic code that produces huge formulas, I max the width out to the 170 characters that will fit on my monitor. All without trouble. Randall Schulz >... > >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/