Updated: mintty 2.7.7

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri May 19 20:51:00 GMT 2017


I have uploaded mintty 2.7.7 with the following changes:

Font rendering and display handling
   * Automatically disabling Uniscribe for ASCII-only chunks 
(mintty/wsltty#36).
   * Fixed bidi display while showing other screen with Bidi=1 (#592, 
~#392, ~#605).

Window handling
   * Avoid being pushed behind other windows on Ctrl+TAB (#652).
   * Tweaks to stabilize initial window geometry (#629, #649).
   * Fixed broken size parameters maxwidth/maxheight.

Terminal handling
   * Option NoAltScreen disables the alternate screen (~#652).
   * Fixed delayed scroll marker highlighting (#569).
   * Manual: link to Wiki about console issues / winpty wrapper (#650).

Configuration
   * New option --configdir for config file and resource folders 
(mintty/winpty#30, mintty/winpty#40, mintty/winpty#38).
   * Always save to config file specified with -c/--config or 
--configdir (mintty/winpty#30, ~mintty/winpty#40).
   * Options: offer resources from subdirectories of all config 
directories (#639, #30, ~#38).
   * Configuration resource subdirectories are created as needed (#30, 
#38, ~#639).

Other
   * Fixed cleanup of environment variables after user command (#654).
   * Fixed usage of /tmp or (if read-only) alternatives (mintty/wsltty#30).
   * Wiki: removed link to buggy themes (#647).

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

------
Thomas



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