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Re: tabbed urxvt?
That makes sense. Where do I find the urxvt source archive? I've been
poking around and don't see where to find the sources for any Cygwin
packages (other than Cygwin itself).
Thanks,
Raul
> 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
>
>
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