This is a Windows explorer/shell issue. Search the web; this is one approach - use cmd with some switches to start with the window minimized https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4277963/how-to-call-cmd-without-opening-a-window
I'm a fan of Emacs on all my platforms; their solution in Windows is a tiny executable that opens Emacs without having the secondary shell window, if I understand correctly. -y On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:44 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Windows 10-1909 Pro > > raku -v > This is Rakudo version 2020.01 built on MoarVM version > 2020.01.1 implementing Perl 6.d. > > I am opening Raku from the registry with > > [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\OpenWithFileAttributes.pl6\command] > @="\"C:\\rakudo\\bin\\raku.exe\" > \"K:\\Windows\\NtUtil\\FileAttributes.pl6\" \"%1\"" > > Problem: up pops a big black box with Raku running it in. > Is there a way to rid myself of the big black box? > (I have pops for the information that is reported to > the user.) > > > Many thanks, > -T >
