fhandler_console.c refresh?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:23:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 12 13:27, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Joseph Allen wrote:
>> >I'm thinking of modifying fhandler_console.c, to make the mouse
>> >support, clipboard support and perhaps some other things a lot more
>> >like xterm.  Possibly this is optional for backwards compatibility:
>> >maybe there's a CYGWIN environment variable option for it.  The idea is
>> >to make UNIX programs (particularly, my text editor JOE, but many other
>> >programs such as 'mc') work fully in CMD console windows.  Basically,
>> >I'd much prefer to do this than make a win32 port of JOE.  What do
>> >think?  I'm sure that this has been a topic of discussion in the past,
>> >so I'm wondering how receptive people are to changes to the terminal
>> >emulator's behavior.
>> 
>> I'm very willing to explore the idea of making the handling of the
>> console more like xterm.  If we can't do it in a backwards comtemptible
>> fashion maybe we could just detect when TERM=xterm and "do the right
>> thing".
>> 
>> Two things to consider before you start:
>> 
>> 1) Please just send regular text email to this mailing list.  This one
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>> 2) Please consider getting the ball rolling on submitting an assignmemt
>> from http://cygwin.com/assign.txt to Red Hat so that there will be no
>> delays in reviewing or adopting your patch.
>> 
>> Otherwise, I think this is a good idea and encourage you to submit patches
>> to make this so.
>
>This sounds all good and right.  That reminds me that I'm always missing
>that the console window doesn't handle changing the window size gracefully.
>Somehow my applications never get a SIGWINCH.  Is that also something
>you'd like to add?  *hint, hint* ;)

There is SIGWINCH handling in the console already.  If it isn't working,
that's a bug.  However, IIRC, it isn't possible to emulate this 100%
perfectly.

cgf