Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)

2006-08-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0 I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it unconditionally to

Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (Attn: QT3 maintainer) (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)

2006-08-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0 I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong.

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting your delete, home, end, etc keys working right, and I can send you my magical .initrc to take care of that post-haste. Please cc me on that one, huh? Or better, post it to the

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Owen Rees
--On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote: Igor FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't Igor understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that Igor wraps multiple times results in multiple lines. Yup. And as far as I know, there's no way to tell

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Marko Bozikovic
Owen Rees wrote: -snip- In the context of copying and pasting in a window, I find rxvt far superior to Console because of the way it handles long lines (as well copying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running). As the author of Console, I'd like to know how does rxvt handle

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Owen Rees wrote: --On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote: Igor FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't Igor understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that Igor wraps multiple times results in multiple lines. Yup.

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Owen Rees
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 14:25:00 +0200 Marko Bozikovic wrote: As the author of Console, I'd like to know how does rxvt handle long lines when copying. I might be able to improve Console :-) The trouble with having chosen Console as the name of your project is that Microsoft refers to

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: G.W. Haywood Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:53 AM Subject: RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window? Hi there, On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting your delete, home, end, etc keys working right

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread John Salerno
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now and thank me later. Yes, it is quite

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread John Salerno
John Salerno wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now and thank me later.

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
John Salerno wrote: John Salerno wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: mwoehlke Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now and thank me later.

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
mwoehlke == mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mwoehlke Awesome? It appears to be xterm No, it's rxvt. Different program. mwoehlke which needs an X server True for xterm; false for rxvt.

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Eric Hanchrow wrote: mwoehlke == mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. mwoehlke Awesome? It appears to be xterm mwoehlke which needs an X server True for xterm; false for rxvt. rxvt will use X if the server

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: mwoehlke == mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please configure your e-mail program to omit this obnoxious header that includes the spam-invitation of quoting raw e-mail addresses (see also PCYMTNQREAIYR). All those ''s confuse Thunderbird (using some other character

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Igor == Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For Emacs users, the keyboard is somewhat better: various combinations of keys that include Escape actually get sent to Emacs. I forget which though. Igor Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Space. But you can achieve the same effect Igor by

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread John Salerno
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem report. See the link below for guidelines: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Thanks. I might have missed it, but I didn't see any place on that site to actually make a

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0400, John Salerno wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem report. See the link below for guidelines: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Thanks. I might have missed it,

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread John Salerno
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0400, John Salerno wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem report. See the link below for guidelines: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
John Salerno wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0400, John Salerno wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem report. See the link below for guidelines: Problem reports:

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: mwoehlke Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:44 AM Subject: Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window? Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: mwoehlke Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's

copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread John Salerno
Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using a DOS prompt?

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
John Salerno wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Eric Hanchrow
John == John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm John wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command John prompt, like in Linux? Sure. But it's a feature of cmd.exe, not of Cygwin. In other words, you can do

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Marko Bozikovic
John Salerno wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: John == John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm John wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command John prompt, like in Linux? Sure. But it's a feature of cmd.exe, not of Cygwin. In

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread John Salerno
Marko Bozikovic wrote: John Salerno wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John Salerno on 8/23/2006 2:04 PM: Thanks guys! I can now highlight and use CTRL+C, but right-clicking doesn't work. But that's ok. Pasting, however, doesn't allow CTRL+V, but simply right-clicking will paste! Strange behavior! :)

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: mwoehlke [snip] Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe me now and thank me later. -- Gary R. Van Sickle