Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sun May 6 13:48:00 GMT 2007


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> The fact is, rxvt upstream is dead, dead, dead. It has shuffled off 
>> this mortal coil.  Joined the choir invisible. It is an EX-terminal. 
>> The terminal is terminal.
> 
> thanks for agreeing with me.  It has no maintainer.

Not so fast, Thomas.  I did not and do not agree with your previous 
posts: neither of your messages claimed that "upstream rxvt has no 
maintainer".  (If they did, then I would have agreed with that.)   Your 
messages claimed that rxvt had no cygwin maintainer.  That claim is 
false: I am the cygwin maintainer for rxvt.

Don't try to retcon this thread.

>> Frankly, I prefer rxvt-unicode on X -- even in non-unicode mode -- 
>> because
> 
> yes (does cygwin finally have unicode support? - no one's mentioned it
> on this list at all).

No, cygwin does not. Cygwin's rxvt-unicode port has limited unicode 
support because Thomas Wolff provided me with a patch (to rxvt-unicode) 
that shims unicode support by intercepting certain X calls.

--
Chuck

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