Re: MinTTY

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>]

* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:16:41 -0500)> 
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:30:17PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >* Christopher Faylor (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:30 -0500)> 
> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> >* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500)> 
> >> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> >> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >> >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package.  It sounds like it
> >> >> >> would get enough votes.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission 
> >> >> > requirements and process. Unless someone would like to volunteer as the 
> >> >> > MinTTY package maintainer?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> In fact, if it operates like an xterm on Windows
> >> >> >> maybe it should even be the default program that is invoked by cygwin.bat.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'd certainly like that, although unfortunately MinTTY doesn't quite fit 
> >> >> > the bill yet due to Issue 4 about leaving the console window open. And of 
> >> >> > course it needs a lot more testing.
> >> >> 
> >> >> That's always an irritating issue.
> >> >
> >> >?? That's how Windows Cmd.exe works. If rxvt does something different 
> >> >then it does some magic and it would definitely irritating to me if cmd 
> >> >would /not/ keep a Window open until mintty is closed. If you want the 
> >> >"old" behaviour of the command.com/Windows 9X environment, you have to 
> >> >use "start".
> >> 
> >> How does any of the above make this non-irritating?
> >
> >I don't understand the question.
> 
> Then live in ignorance.

That'll be my fate from now on... Woe is me!

Thorsten


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