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Re: MinTTY
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:16:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: MinTTY
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:30:17PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>* Christopher Faylor (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:30 -0500)>
>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> >* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500)>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> >> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it
>> >> >> would get enough votes.
>> >> >
>> >> > That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission
>> >> > requirements and process. Unless someone would like to volunteer as the
>> >> > MinTTY package maintainer?
>> >> >
>> >> >> In fact, if it operates like an xterm on Windows
>> >> >> maybe it should even be the default program that is invoked by cygwin.bat.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'd certainly like that, although unfortunately MinTTY doesn't quite fit
>> >> > the bill yet due to Issue 4 about leaving the console window open. And of
>> >> > course it needs a lot more testing.
>> >>
>> >> That's always an irritating issue.
>> >
>> >?? That's how Windows Cmd.exe works. If rxvt does something different
>> >then it does some magic and it would definitely irritating to me if cmd
>> >would /not/ keep a Window open until mintty is closed. If you want the
>> >"old" behaviour of the command.com/Windows 9X environment, you have to
>> >use "start".
>>
>> How does any of the above make this non-irritating?
>
>I don't understand the question.
Then live in ignorance.
cgf
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