On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:43:10AM +0000, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes: > >> >That's because mintty uses entirely Cygwin mechanisms and the console >> >uses Windows. Windows has a limitation which we didn't know about. >> >I'll fix this in the next couple of days. >> >> This bug should be fixed in today's snapshot (when it shows up): >> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> It will, of course, be in the next Cygwin release but there is no fixed >> date for when that will be available. > > > >Hi Christopher, > >it's fixed for me too! I really appreciate your support. You wrote that >you'll fix it in couple of days, not in a few hours :) >Especially that you >have done it on New Year's Eve. You have my respect. Thank you! You really >improved a quality of my life :) (this issue was very annoying for me).
Problems like that interfere with my sleep so it's best to get them out of the way before I go to bed. :-) >Could you briefly describe what was the nature of that limitation and how did >you fixed it, please? (technically, I'm a developer too) The problem is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14699043/replacement-to-systemcolor in the first Answer. I found this after noticing the strange behavior of ReadConsoleOutput. >Thank you and have happy and successful year 2014! You're welcome. cgf -- 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