From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 03:18:04 -0400
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-7.7-7
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rxvt-unicode is clone of the familiar rxvt terminal emulator,
that partially supports unicode, with a lot of caveats. So
why bother?

(1) bugfixes. Upstream development of rxvt is dead. cygwin's
    rxvt is moribund. rxvt-unicode is actively maintained.

(2) For cygwin-1.7, rxvt-unicode should be able to ACTUALLY
    support unicode. Stay tuned for the rxvt-unicode-X-8.x
    series for cygwin-1.7.

(3) Pretty. xft support. Styled text[*]. Looks cool with
    inheritPixmap and xsri. (xft with antialias is a bit slower,
    but not too bad on a fast machine, and you can go back to
    non-antialias or plain old bitmap fonts if you're desperate).

(4) Lightweight. Has an optional client-server mode where all
    client windows are part of the same process. Yes, it does
    present a single-point-of-failure (but so does xwin!) -- but
    I haven't had a problem yet.

(5) no need for run.exe: the standalone urxvt-X and the server
    urxvtd-X will hide their console window themselves (using code
    borrowed from inetutils).  You still get a quickly dis-
    appearing cmd box, which could be avoided by using run.exe,
    but...)

This is a bug fix and feature enhancement release.

[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]]

This will most likely be the final rxvt-unicode-X update for the cygwin-1.5
distribution; future development will continue with rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-20
for cygwin-1.7.

CHANGES (from rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-6)
===========================
* Fix bug(s) in postinstall/preremove scripts
* Update setup.hint
* Recompile against latest (modular) X libraries
* Update postinstall/preremove scripts
* Update to build with stock cygport
* Use cygutils to create Start Menu shortcuts for 
    urxvtc-X (client)
    urxvt-X  (standalone)
  There is no shortcut for the daemon urxvtd-X; you're
  better off adding that to your X server startup script.

[*]
BoldItalic:
tput sitm ; tput bold ;  echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0

Italic:
tput sitm ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput ritm

Bold:
tput bold ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0

Fun prompt:
     ITb=`tput sitm`
     BDb=`tput bold`
     NRM=`tput sgr0`
     GRN="\[\e[32m\]"
     YLW="\[\e[33m\]"
PS1="\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n$ITb$BDb$GRN\u$NRM@$GRN\h $ITb$YLW\w$NRM\n\$ "
gives:
GreenBoldItalicUserName Def@ GreenNormalMachineName YellowItalicPath


-- 
Charles Wilson
volunteer rxvt-unicode-X maintainer for cygwin

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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to
your system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

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