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Re: chere doesn't work anymore with MinTTY


On Mar 18 21:27, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen:
> > Accepting `-e command' additionally would make the usage comaptible to
> > xterm/rxvt and mintty could be used easier as drop-in replacement...
> 
> Can't say I'm keen on doing that, because it looks  like the start of
> a slippery slope down xterm's intimidating manpage.
> Konsole and gnome-terminal do support it though, without implementing
> any other xterm options, so I guess mintty better does as well: issue
> 69.

You really don't have to support every ugly xterm option.  I just think
the -e option is along the lines of the -c option for shells.  Every
Unix shell has a -c option and it always means the same, even for csh
and, FWIW, cmd.exe.  Well, the latter with kinks.


Corinna

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