Re: MinTTY

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

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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