Re: Mode dependent cursor shape lost in cygwin Vim in a Windows console
On 13 August 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: > No, but I'm sure a patch implementing the DECSCUSR control sequence > using SetConsoleCursorInfo() would be welcome. (Copyright assignment > required.) I guess this patch is not in Vim code (which is able to do the job in a normal cmd console window) but rather in cygwin.dll which reconfigures the console. Could you implement such a patch yourself? No emergency, though. Best regards. Jean Johner -- 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
Mode dependent cursor shape lost in cygwin Vim in a Windows console
Hello, Please do the following: 1/ Start a standard cmd console Launch Windows Vim (C:\Program Files\vim\vim72\vim.exe) with vim -u NONE file1 Result: file1 opens with a block cursor. If insert mode is activated, the cursor changes to underscore (nice) 2/ Launch cygwin.bat Launch cygwin Vim with vim -u NONE file1 Result: file1 is opened with an underscore cursor. No change when insert mode is activated. Is there a way to have mode dependent cursor shape in Cygwin Vim in a Windows console? Best regards. Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Mintty versus xterm colors in Vim
On 12 August 2010 19:56, Andy Koppe wrote: > Looks like vim automatically enables 256-color mode in xterm. Invoke > vim with TERM=xterm-256color to enable it in mintty too. > (You can set that variable on the 'Output' page of mintty's options. > Requires a restart of mintty to take effect.) Marvellous ! Best regards. Jean Johner -- 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
Mintty versus xterm colors in Vim
Hello, Consider a .vimrc containing only the following line: syntax on Consider the following "test.f" fortran file: __ c Version 1.0 *deck main c Following comments when not preceded by a blank line character nvarbeta*8,nvarnhug*8,nvarpfus*8,nvarflux*8 parameter (nbtnap=51,nbrnnap=51) external f0tfnpadd,fntaudiv,fnigana,f0gdadureeflux, & f0fhetauhesenflux,f0fhetauhesedureenflux,f0fhetauhesedureetflux, & f0tigpfus,f0f1igpfus,f0gdhigpfus,f0fhetauhesengdh common/coalphabetatilde/alphantilde,alphattilde,betattilde,nbit, & info common/coonetwo/one,two common/coidrhopedballoon/irhopedballoon common/cocd/gamacd10,gamacd20 common/cogdq/gdq ___ 1/ Launch the "XWin server" shortcut to get an xterm terminal Type: vim test.f test.f opens with the following colors: "*", "=", "/" are in a readable dark brown Continuation "&" is in yellow 2/ Open a Mintty terminal with black foreground and white background Type vim test.f test.f opens with the following colors: "*", "=", "/" are in a difficultly readable light brown Continuation "&" is in yellowish gray It is possible to have xterm colors in Mintty? Best regards Jean Johner -- 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
Re: About mouse selection in a cmd console
On 4 August 2010 18:46, Andy Koppe wrote: > This flag ensures that mouse events, including right clicks, are > placed into the console input buffer rather than triggering window > actions. That's in case an application activates xterm-style mouse > reporting. Yep, the Cygwin console driver does indded support that, > but vim doesn't know that, so you need to tell it via .vimrc: > > set mouse=a >set ttymouse=xterm2 Thank you, Andy, for sharing this incredible expertise. Mouse control works with the above setting. With "Quick Edit mode" enabled, mouse control is lost even in a standard cmd console using Windows Vim. That is a bug (or a feature) of Windows console Vim. I opened a thread on vim_use to see if this can be improved. Best regards, Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Is there a difference between "bash --login" and "bash --login -i"
1/ Thank you, Eric for your precisions. 2/ On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 23:25, Dave Hylands wrote: > I've always just created a shortcut with a "Target" of > > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i > > and set "Start in" to be the directory I want to start things in. For me, the above method always starts in the $HOME directory (due to /etc/profile action). I have to use: C:\cygwin\bin\env.exe CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login -i with the wanted directory in "Start in". I guess you have made changes in /etc/profile if it works for you. See the "Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory" thread with Andy's explanations. -- 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
Is there a difference between "bash --login" and "bash --login -i"
Hello, The default Cygwin.bat uses "bash --login -I" while the default rxvt-native shortcut uses "bash --login". I do not see any difference in the behaviour of the bash shell in either case. Is there any? If not, why keep -i in Cygwin.bat? Best regards, Jean Johner -- 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
Re: How to inactivate CTRL-S hold in a Mintty bash session or ssh connection
On 08/02/2010 13:25, Eric Blake wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Typing CTRL-S in a Mintty bash session has the effect of holding it >> until CTRL-Q is typed. >> It happens that CRTL-S is also the Windows standard for saving a file >> (NotePad, WordPad, Office ...) so that it is mapped to :w in my .vimrc. >> >> Is there a way to inactivate this CTRL-S hold in Mintty. > > Yes - use stty. For example, my ~/.bash_profile contains: > > if tty --quiet ; then > stty start undef > fi Thank you Eric for this quick answer. Are you sure of your syntax. I added the above 3 lines to my ~/.bash_profile. CTRL-S still results in inactivation of input in a Mintty bash session with the bonus that CTRL-Q no longer cures the situation. The only way out was to kill the window with the Task Manager. Best regards. Jean Johner -- 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
How to inactivate CTRL-S hold in a Mintty bash session or ssh connection
Hello, Typing CTRL-S in a Mintty bash session has the effect of holding it until CTRL-Q is typed. It happens that CRTL-S is also the Windows standard for saving a file (NotePad, WordPad, Office ...) so that it is mapped to :w in my .vimrc. Is there a way to inactivate this CTRL-S hold in Mintty. Same effect when using ssh from a cmd console (also with PuTTY). Same question. Best regards, Jean Johner -- 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
About mouse selection in a cmd console
On 29 July 2010 12:16, Andy Koppe wrote: >> Mouse selection works (it does not with DOS) > >Actually mouse selection does work in the console, but it is somewhat, > erm, challenging ... . Try 'Mark' from the context menu. > > Enable 'Quick Edit' in the console properties to make it almost bearable. Hello, 1/ Enabling 'Quick Edit' makes mouse selection quite bearable in a standard cmd console (click, then right mouse twice). Thank you. 2/ Launching Cygwin.bat in a 'Quick Edit' cmd console gives access to the above feature. Note that, when 'Quick Edit' is not checked, right click to access to "Mark" is not enabled when you launch Cygwin.bat (why?). 3/ Launch Cygwin.bat in a 'Quick Edit' cmd console, put "set mouse=a" in .vimrc then type vi file1. Result: file1 is opened. When you click somewhere in the file, the vim cursor is NOT moved. In the same way, you cannot select a word to delete it nor select a range of lines to do some specific operation. That is the reason why I wrote that mouse selection does not work in a bash cmd console. 4/ If you have Window vim installed (in C:\Program Files\vim\vim72\vim.exe) and launch a cmd console (without launching Cygwin.bat), using vim file1 opens file1. Clicking somewhere DOES move the vim cursor. Now mouse selection does work in a cmd console. 5/ Launching bash under Mintty always gives access to true mouse selection in vi. Summary: - When launching Cygwin.bat, "true" mouse selection is not allowed in vi. That is very annoying and perhaps could be improved. - Mintty solves the problem. Best regards, Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory
On 31 July 2010 15:00, Andy Koppe wrote: > The window title is changed to the working directory as part of the > shell prompt, i.e. the PS1 variable, which is set in /etc/profile. > It's the initial part of it that does it: > \[\e]0;\w\a\] > So you could change PS1 to something more to your liking in > ~/.bash_profile. > Alternatively, you could mount (part of) the "D:/Documents and > settings/User_name/My documents/foobar" path to a shorter POSIX path > in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER. See > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table for > details. > You might also want to consider making it your official home > directory, in which case it would be abbreviated to a tilde in the > title. > (This isn't mintty-specific of course.) Thank you, I will study that more closely. Btw, I read your minty man where you warn that /etc/profile puts the folder to $HOME. Perhaps it would be useful that you also describe the recipe at that place. It is not so easy to guess! Best regards, Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty
On 1 August 2010 09:43, Andy Koppe wrote: > > Turns out there's a global Windows setting for the cursor width, at > Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> Display (that's where it is > in XP anyway). Trouble is, mintty doesn't support it, but fixing that > will address the issue without having to introduce a new option, so > that's what I'll do. Right. NotePad takes account of this setting but WordPad does not. Thank you for this work. Hope you have learnt something. Do you want me to enter an enhancement issue in http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues? or do you consider it done? Best regards Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty
On 29 July 2010 21:33, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I use Mintty with the following options: >> Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor: >> line. >> >> With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great in >> insert mode. However the cursor appears to be a little too thin in my >> opinion (sometimes difficult to find on the screen). > > It's the standard Windows cursor, same as you get in any other Windows > application. Try the block or underscore cursors for something more > substantial. > >> Could Andy envisage to give it some thickness > > Envisage? Yes. Implement? No, not unless there's substantial demand for it. The line cursor is well adapted for insert mode (gvim switches from block to line cursor when insert mode is activated). Indeed, the Mintty line cursor is also used by WordPad but Word uses a thicker cursor (probably for the same reasons as mine). Perhaps you could envisage proposing both. Anyway, it is a detail. Thank you again for this very nice piece of code. Jean Johner -- 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
Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory
On 29 July 2010 08:49, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I also tried to add >> >> C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar >> >> in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect. > That was the right idea. The reason it didn't work is that > /etc/profile changes back to your home directory, unless the variable > CHERE_INVOKING (used by the 'chere' package) is set. > Hence you could get it to work by changing the shortcut target to this: > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login Thank you Andy, The last problem is that the window title, for the "My documents/foobar" directory becomes: /cygdrive/d/Documents and settings/User_name/My documents/foobar which iconifies to "/cygdrive/d/Docu...", the latter indication being the same for all directories. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -t foobar -e /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login to get the "foobar" window title, but at the end the complete above title comes back again. Best regards. Jean Johner PS: same problem when installing chere with chere -ia -s bash -t mintty -- 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
Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty
Hello, I use Mintty with the following options: Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor: line. With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great in insert mode. However the cursor appears to be a little too thin in my opinion (sometimes difficult to find on the screen). Could Andy envisage to give it some thickness (take the cursor of gvim in insert mode as an example). Best regards, Jean JOHNER -- 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
Re: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default?
"Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows". All the Linux terminals (KDE konsole, Gnome terminal) use copy-on-select by default. So ... Jean JOHNER -- 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
RE: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory
I found the following solution: Create a Windows shortcut with C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --rcfile ~/.foobarrc where .foobarrc is a concatenation of /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile with the following line at the end: cd ~/foobar The above solution is a work-around of a more clean solution which could be: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login --rcfile ~/.foobarrc where .foobarrc contains only the " cd ~/foobar" line. Unfortunately, when launching bash with --login, the --rcfile option is no longer active. Has somebody an idea on the way to launch a login bash which reads a specified .rc file? Best regards Jean Johner -Message d'origine----- De : JOHNER Jean 066030 Envoyé : jeudi 29 juillet 2010 09:50 À : 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Objet : Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory Hello, Putting the following command line in a Windows shortcut opens a login bash in the /home/User_name directory (~): C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login Now I would like to do the same in the /home/User_name/foobar directory. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login -c "cd foobar" with the result that the Mintty window vanishes. I also tried to add C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect. Thank you for your help. Jean JOHNER -- 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
Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory
Hello, Putting the following command line in a Windows shortcut opens a login bash in the /home/User_name directory (~): C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login Now I would like to do the same in the /home/User_name/foobar directory. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login -c "cd foobar" with the result that the Mintty window vanishes. I also tried to add C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect. Thank you for your help. Jean JOHNER -- 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
RE: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font
Hello, Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very instructive. In conclusion: - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be checked, which is not the default. - Mintty behaves much better than the other consoles (rxvt, DOS, putty) when using vim on a ssh connection . Mouse selection works (it does not with DOS) . The keys CTRL-Home/End, Ctrl-PageUp/Down, Ctrl-Up/Down are recognized (without requiring mapping of the escape sequences). - It seems that Monospace font is not available with non-X11 applications. Now my question is: How to launch an xterm window with Monospace font ? Typing xterm -fn "Monospace" gives an error message. Best regards, Jean Johner -Message d'origine- De : cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] De la part de Jeremy Bopp Envoyé : mardi 27 juillet 2010 16:13 À : cygwin@cygwin.com Objet : Re: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font On 7/27/2010 9:04 AM, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to this mailing list. Sorry if my mail does not conform > strickly to your standards. > > The default command to launch an rxvt terminal is the following: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn > rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login > > I would like to use Monospace font instead of Lucida Console. I tried: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Monospace-14" -tn > rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login > > It results in the use of a double-spaced font which is not Monospace. > Replacing "Monospace" with any string gives the same result. > > NB: the Monospace font is the one which is used by default when > launching gvim (with XWin activated). I don't know the answer to your question, but have you tried using mintty instead of rxvt? Mintty has an options dialog which includes a font chooser, and is better all around than rxvt. -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 -- 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
RE: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font
Thank you, Jeremy, for your suggestion. I tried the Mintty font chooser. Unfortunately, the Monospace font is not proposed. However, the Fixedsys font is proposed, which is OK for me (my feeling is that the Lucida Console is too thin and the Lucida Console-bold is not nice). I agree that Mintty is great. I just regret that the middle-mouse paste does not work (ctrl-insert/shift insert instead). Best regards, Jean Johner -Message d'origine- De : cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] De la part de Jeremy Bopp Envoyé : mardi 27 juillet 2010 16:13 À : cygwin@cygwin.com Objet : Re: How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font On 7/27/2010 9:04 AM, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to this mailing list. Sorry if my mail does not conform > strickly to your standards. > > The default command to launch an rxvt terminal is the following: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn > rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login > > I would like to use Monospace font instead of Lucida Console. I tried: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Monospace-14" -tn > rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login > > It results in the use of a double-spaced font which is not Monospace. > Replacing "Monospace" with any string gives the same result. > > NB: the Monospace font is the one which is used by default when > launching gvim (with XWin activated). I don't know the answer to your question, but have you tried using mintty instead of rxvt? Mintty has an options dialog which includes a font chooser, and is better all around than rxvt. -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 -- 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
How to launch an rxvt terminal window with Monospace font
Hello, I am new to this mailing list. Sorry if my mail does not conform strickly to your standards. The default command to launch an rxvt terminal is the following: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login I would like to use Monospace font instead of Lucida Console. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -fn "Monospace-14" -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e /bin/bash --login It results in the use of a double-spaced font which is not Monospace. Replacing "Monospace" with any string gives the same result. NB: the Monospace font is the one which is used by default when launching gvim (with XWin activated). Thank you for your help. Best regards, Jean JOHNER IRFM/SCCP, Bat. 513, CEA CADARACHE 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, FRANCE Tel: national 04 42 25 49 50 - international +33 4 42 25 49 50 Fax: national 04 42 25 62 33 - international +33 4 42 25 62 33 E-mail: jean.joh...@cea.fr -- 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
