Duplicate mintty window (was: Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)

[Andy Koppe]

bjoe wrote:
>> > What I found missing in Mintty is putty feature to start duplicate
>> > session (more welcome with hot-keys)
>>
>> Since MinTTY doesn't have sessions like Putty, I didn't think there
>> was much point in keeping this.
>
> It's because you remove networking function from putty, right. IMHO
> this feature will help many user (especially who come from Windows
> word)

MinTTY is meant to be a small and simple command line window for
Cygwin with a native UI, no more, no less. It's the classic Unix
philosophy: do one job, and do it well. Cygwin already has all the
necessary network tools in ssh, telnet & co., and they can easily be
combined with mintty, so there was no point in keeping all that
security-critical code.


> I don't know the relationship between networking function in Putty with
> duplicate session feature in code point of view, but since this based
> on putty code I hope this will not give some sort of difficulty to
> adopt this feature in mintty.

It's fairly easy to do actually. Instead of a session it would simply
invoke mintty again with the same command line, for much the same
effect. The concern was about unnecessary features: no point
cluttering up the interface with stuff that can already be done with
system-wide facilities.


>> Desktop and quickstart shortcuts already provide quick ways to open a
>> new MinTTY window, and as discussed on a separate thread here you can
>> assign hotkeys to Windows shortcuts.
>
> I run Cygwin from portable media in different PC so Desktop and
> quickstart shortcut not an options in My case.

Alright, I give in on this one. You could probably use AutoHotkey or
something like that, but I guess including this in MinTTY really is
quite a bit more convenient, also in comparison with shortcuts.

I'll stick a Duplicate command in the window menu, with disablable
shortcut Alt+F2. Reopened issue 11:
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=11

Andy

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