Thanks so much! I finally got it working as I am expecting!
Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: > > On 09/21/2010 05:05 PM, bsmile wrote: >> Marco atzeri-3 wrote: >>> >>> --- Mar 21/9/10, Eric Blake ha scritto: >>> >>>>> >>>>> I installed Cgywin(don't know how to see its version >>>> number) under windows xp >>>>> and so far so good. However, there is one thing very >>>> inconvenient for me to >>>>> use Cgywin, that is, I cannot highlight a text to copy >>>> and right button to >>>>> paste. I am wondering how I can get back this beloved >>>> feature. Any advices >>>>> are greatly appreciated! >>>> >>>> Use mintty or rxvt instead of the windows console. >>> >>> Only mintty please, rxvt should be considered obsolete as >>> cygwin uses now UTF8 and rxvt can't. >>> >>> Moreover we have a really present mintty maintainer >>> while rxvt is dead upstream >>> >>> >>> Marco >> >> Thanks, both! I will install mintty, but really cannot follow the next > step >> ... >> >> So far the Cygwin is launched through some DOS batch file, thus I > don't care >> what's behind. So if to use mintty, what should I do? Where should > mintty be >> installed(any directory under windows or extract to some directory under >> Cygwin, which I suppose do not talk to windows)? Further explanations are >> really appreciated! > > You can install Mintty by selecting the mintty package in Cygwin's > setup.exe. Just run setup.exe again and select the mintty package when > you get to the package selection panel without changing any of the other > settings that are already there on other panels. Once installed, you > will find a shortcut for starting a Cygwin session within Mintty in your > start menu. I'm pretty sure it will be in the Cygwin group. > > -Jeremy > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/how-to-enable-the-very-convenient-copy-paste-editing-method-in-Cgywin--tp29774167p29774579.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple