Problem with mintty-0.4.1-1 and orpie

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 06:23:00 GMT 2009


2009/6/26 Matt Wozniski:
>
> > There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any
> > environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.:
> >
> > mintty sh -c "TERM=xterm-256color emacs"
>
> Hm.  Maybe I'm missing something, but - isn't this a place where using
> /bin/env would make more sense than dealing with all the extra
> processing required to launch a shell?  For instance,
>
>    mintty env TERM=xterm-256color emacs

Ah, I wasn't aware of that command. Very handy. I'll change the manual
accordingly.

Thanks,
Andy

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