Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
Hi, I've taken a first pass at distilling my experience with
'mintty' and the [ahem] discussion, here, about it into a text
file (see attachment mintty.{h})
Thanks, that's a nice surprise!
Speed
It's quite funny, I didn't realise that until people here pointed it
out, probably because I didn't have to do anything to achieve it. :)
> Best conformance to my personal expectation of what various
directional keys (<HOME>, <END>, <->>, <<->, etc.) should do!
(However, still bummed that <CTRL>-<->> & <CTRL>-<<-> do not
move, respectively forward and back a word on the command
line!)
These two lines in .inputrc should do the trick:
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
And here's my favourite bash feature, mapped to Ctrl-Up/Down:
"\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
"\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
* Futures expectation: My number one goal would be for it to
replace the Cygwin console for everything, although I
understand there are great difficulties with that goal.
Hmm, yep, unfortunately the only path I can see towards that goal is to
take Console2's approach of capturing a Windows console, and to try and
make the cygwin terminal running inside it more standards-compliant, but
that would still leave the slowness of the console and the lag caused by
capturing its contents.
Perhaps it would be possible to override and reimplement the Win32
console functions as listed at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073(VS.85).aspx ?
Do DOS software interrupts still work too? It would certainly be a huge
amount of work though, which would include having to reimplement the
console's ANSI emulation.
Because of the nature of various "discussion" elements in wading
through this stuff, I am referring to my documentation "project" as:
*Diuretics*!
*grin*
@@ What "alternate screen"? @@
Good question. It's vt100 lingo for a second logical screen that
wholescreen apps such as editors normally use, often through the
(n)curses library. (I'm taking "wholescreen" to mean an app controlling
the whole terminal screen, as opposed to the terminal window being in
fullscreen mode.)
= Is there an alternate screen toggle in 'mintty' as there is
in 'xterm'?
I didn't know xterm actually had a UI for this. Do people find this useful?
= How do you invoke it?
You shouldn't need to really. Apps such as 'less' or 'vi' switch to it
using the releavant vt100 incantation.
> [about mousewheel scrolling in less]
> the feature doesn't work in Vista when the
> scrollbar is shown. Looks like the inactive scrollbar is
> swallowing the mousewheel events.
Actually this seems to be an issue with the trackpad driver on my
laptop. It's works fine with a bog-standard USB mouse on my desktop.
Thanks again,
Andy
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