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> How is this better than simply using rxvt?I used rxvt for some time but puttycyg rolls better for me.- I remember accented chars (french) often got messed up and that wasa pain to fix.- I never manager to make rxvt display special chars correctly (mc andothers look like crap without them) and even if i did, that meantgiving up accented chars, as rxvt supplied fonts are ASCII 127 chars,not Ext ASCII 255 chars.- Switching rxvt fonts under native windows gives weird spacing. Anyfont I found (incl. by STFW) that would supposedly work was eitherenglish-only 127 characters, not mapping accented chars correctly,not mapping special chars correctly, or both.=> everything works OOTB with puttycyg. There were other things hereand there that were finally turning me away of rxvt.
Note that it's _only_ valid on _native_ windows, not X11 (which Idon't use, so I didn't test), where it wouldn't have much meaning tocompare them. There might just be ways to fix things under X but as Iwas not interested in running it, I skipped researching it.
There's but one thing I regret from rxvt in puttycyg: if a processforks in the background, and I exit the login shell, rxvt closes itswindow and the process continues to run, while puttycyg will keep thewindow opened until the process goes down (kill or whatever throughanother console). it seemed to behave the same with cmd console.Sometimes it's "useful" when you forgot to kill that lighttpd you ranjust for testing, sometimes not, when you spawn another console ($putty &) and you want to close only the former. Especially, closingthe former the hard way will close the latter too.
Just to be clear : I'm not saying puttycyg is better, I'm just sayingit fits my needs.