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Re: tabbed urxvt?


Raul Acevedo wrote:
Supposedly urxvt 7.x supports tabs via a Perl module by running it as:

# urxvt -pe tabbed

Supposedly this has been possible since urxvt 7.3 (see
http://linux.die.net/man/7/urxvt).  Why does this not work under Cygwin?

Because urxvt is configured with:


--disable-perl \

and perl is required for tabbed stuff to work. The reason cygwin's urxvt is compiled that way is to vaoid the 10MB dependency on perl just to install urxvt, for a feature most people will not use.

You can easily download the source archive, remove the offending configure option above from the handy .cygport script, and rebuild it...

$ cygport rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-6.cygport all


-- Chuck



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