On 2014.08.04 04:46, Glenn Linderman wrote: > How does one "directly run" another application using ConEmu? That wasn't > clear > from what I found to read. It sounded like you run ConEmu, run one or more > shells within it, and launch programs from those shells? And so it was also > unclear if a program launched from some batch file would have to have the > batch > file launched from ConEmu, also. Or does ConEmu grab the execution association > for batch files to make that work more automatically? When you open a new console, the dialog will ask you to supply a path to an executable you want to run. Any arbitrary CLI application will work. I don't understand your question about batch files. If you mean to ask if ConEmu will snatch a console opened by executing a batch file outside of ConEmu, yes, it can do that. I highly suggest actually using the program and doing some tests of your own to see how it works.
>> ConEmu can use any arbitrary font available on the system. As I have >> said, I have been able to display Unicode output on it from an application >> written in Python. No mojibake, no replacement characters, just the exact >> characters one would expect. >> I do not know the internals of ConEmu and how it interacts with conhost and >> whatever else, but I have not found a need to since it has just worked for >> me. > So you may not know the internals of ConEmu, but I presume you know the > internals of your Python applications. What encodings do you use for stdout > for > those applications? Do you set up the Python environment variables that > specify > some particular encoding, in the ConEmu environment (or does it)? Because the > default Python IO encoding in Windows seems to be obtained from the configured > code page. I use UTF-8. Open the Python interpreter directly in ConEmu and see what you get. > Of course the biggest problem with much free and open source software is the > documentation; I wasn't able to find specific answers to all my questions by > reading the ConEmu wiki. Maybe some of it would be clearer if I installed it, > and your "just worked" comment is certainly encouraging me to "just try it", > but while trying it may help me figure it out, adding another package to > separately install for my users gives more complexity. See if you can push me > over the edge :) It certainly would make things much clearer if you were to actually use the program. Documentation tends to assume (and reasonably so, IMO) that you intend to do some hands-on learning. I can give no advice on deploying this to your users other than to say ConEmu works well as a tool for command line power users on Windows, but does not provide much ROI when it is simply an implementation detail for a single program. If you want to save your users the hassle, I would definitely recommend a graphical environment. If I had realized that you intended your application to be widely deployed, I would have simply recommended that from the start. On a side note, you would have run into similar issues on *nix systems where a significant amount of your users would be using the "C" locale and have no idea what it is, why it causes them problems, or how to change it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
