2009/7/2 Jonathan jonat...@kc8onw.net:
I still see 100% CPU usage per core with the latest snapshot (2009-07-01)
I've tried removing tortoisesvn and virtualbox and still have performance
issues, is my next step trying a clean windows install?
Only if you're gonna install XP. ;)
Andy
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2009/7/2 Julio Costa cost...@gmail.com:
HKCU\Console\argv[0]\WindowPosition = 0x80008000
Good idea!
Why on Earth are we having this trouble to have an available console
all the time? Is it necessary to redirect the in/out streams? Is it
another thing?
From earlier in the thread:
me:
The
2009/7/2 Eray Ozkura:
I prefer not to subscribe to any high-volume lists, so if you have an
answer please CC to me.
Ever heard of mail filters?
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2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor:
And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last
month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms
to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause
2009/6/23 Christopher Faylor:
If posix_spawn() ever gets implemented in Cygwin to
avoid the slowness of fork(), /bin/sh might well change to the first
shell that supports it.
It's really somewhat of an urban myth about Cygwin's fork being slow.
Cygwin's exec is also pretty slow. I'm not really
2009/6/29 Jon TURNEY:
Perhaps to avoid this, xterm's setup.hint should list font-alias as a
requirement since it names fonts defined there in it's default resources?
font-adobe-dpi100 (and -dpi75?) should probably be xterm's or
xorg-server's dependencies as well, otherwise you get a warning
2009/6/29 Dave Tang:
So I've changed my home directory to /home/d.tang in my passwd file. I
copied the .bashrc into my new home directory.
But when I restart cygwin, it still doesn't load the .bashrc.
Bash on Cygwin is normally invoked as a login shell, in which case it
doesn't source
Shortcuts created by postinstall scripts using mkshortcut --allusers
--smprograms aren't readable for ordinary users, so all they get to
see in the start menu is a white dummy icon that doesn't do anything.
This affects both MinTTY and rxvt, at least with Cygwin 1.7 on Windows
7. I guess the
2009/6/28 Corinna Vinschen:
For both 1.5 and 1.7:
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.2-1.tar.bz2
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.2-1-src.tar.bz2
Please delete 0.4.0-1.
Done. I also removed 0.3.10-1. I hope that was ok.
Yep, that's fine.
Thanks!
Andy
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode
support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is
largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server.
MinTTY is based on code from
2009/6/27 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com:
I haven't actually used it, but this looks quite promising:
http://www.resedit.net
http://www.resedit.net/screenshots.htm
Even mentions MingW and says this: To open a file which uses Win32
API symbolic constants, you will
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen:
On Jun 26 15:08, Julio Costa wrote:
I've been following this discussion, crossing fingers to someone came
to some conclusion, as this is the biggest show-stopper for Cygwin in
several months.
I've not access to a Win 7, but I would like at least to drop some
2009/6/15 Corinna Vinschen:
Define the default for ja, ko, and zh to use width = 2, with a
@cjknarrow (or whatever) modifier to use width = 1.
I think it is good idea.
If everybody agrees to this suggestion, here's the patch. Tested
with various combinations like
2009/6/26 Christopher Faylor:
Yes. Thanks for doing this. I hate working with this rc stuff. I
used to use Visual C++ to lay out the dialogs but, somewhere along the
line, my installation bit-rotted.
Well, adding those #defines is probably the final kiss of death for
ever being able to
2009/6/26 Mark Harig
Is is possible to display the upper 128 entries in the ASCII
table in mintty using the 'cygutils' application 'ascii'?
I have attempted to use two configurations, but neither one
displays the table without problems in mintty:
Configuration 1:
- mintty: Using the
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen
The issue will definitely not be fixed in RTM. Oh well.
:(
We will have
to find a W7 workaround for our method of creating a hidden console. I
have asked Microsoft to provide us with a workaround but I have no
really big hope that they can or will do it. Any
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen:
The proper, yet probably completely impractical solution: compile
Cygwin programs for the GUI subsystem instead of the console one and
attach to the parent process' console, if any, with explicit calls at
program startup. POSIX programs don't use the Win32 console
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen:
Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by
trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if
any. When I attempted that in MinTTY, though, I couldn't make it work.
Yes, I thought of trying AttachConsole first. It's a
2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen:
Yes, I thought of trying AttachConsole first. It's a band-aid since
it will of course not work if there's just no parent console
That can be dealt with, because AttachConsole reports back whether it
did manage to attach, so if it doesn't, one can then call
2009/6/25 Mark Harig:
At the bash shell prompt while editing commands is one example, but
it is also the case for me in text editors, vim or emacs, for example.
From the Options menu, I set the cursor type to block and set the
cursor color to a light color, say, yellow, and then moved the
2009/6/25 David Rothenberger:
After upgrading to mintty-0.4.1-1, the Enter, +, -, *,
and / keys on my number pad no longer with in orpie.
Reverting to mintty-0.4.0-2 solves the problem.
Sure about 0.4.0-2? I'm finding the behaviour changed between 0.4-rc3
and 0.4-rc4. That's when the keycodes
2009/6/25 Mark Harig:
(TERM=xterm by default for me. I have no idea where that comes from.)
This is documented in the manual page for 'mintty':
TERM variable
The TERM variable for the child process is set to xterm, so that pro‐
grams that pay attention to it expect xterm keycodes and
2009/6/25 David Rothenberge:
After upgrading to mintty-0.4.1-1, the Enter, +, -, *,
and / keys on my number pad no longer with in orpie.
Reverting to mintty-0.4.0-2 solves the problem.
Sure about 0.4.0-2?
Yup. I checked it a number of times.
Ah, you're right; I hadn't tried it with NumLock
2009/6/26 Matt Wozniski:
There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any
environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.:
mintty sh -c TERM=xterm-256color emacs
Hm. Maybe I'm missing something, but - isn't this a place where using
/bin/env would make more
2009/6/25 Andrew Schulman:
After upgrading to mintty-0.4.1-1, the Enter, +, -, *, and / keys on my
number pad no longer with in orpie. Reverting to mintty-0.4.0-2 solves
the problem. Also, running TERM=cygwin orpie also solves the problem.
(TERM=xterm by default for me. I have no idea where
2009/6/26 Mark Harig:
From the 0.4.0 release announcement:
- MinTTY now has its own identity, instead of pretending to be an old
xterm. The ^E answerback string is mintty, the ^[[c primary device
attribute command reports a vt100, and the ^[[c secondary DA command
reports terminal type 77
2009/6/23 Christopher Faylor:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:13:39PM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line
options, in particular the one for installing packages without
invoking the GUI that I think was added last year?
I had a look in
2009/6/24 GJ Hagenaars:
Hi there,
On a Windows Server 2008, running cronbug from the (bash) command line
results in an ever increasing cronbug.txt file because cygcheck walks the
registry and gets into an infinite loop.
It will repeatedly find these entries, deeper and deeper in the
2009/6/23 Jon TURNEY:
Always assuming that /bin/bash exists, or that /bin/sh is bash is probably
bad style for portability across unicies.
However, in this specific case, it's probably ok.
You never know. If posix_spawn() ever gets implemented in Cygwin to
avoid the slowness of fork(),
2009/6/22 Mark Harig:
1. There is no description of the '-e' switch in mintty's manual page.
Is it an execute-this-command option? Or, should the user be
aware that it is specific to execute this shell?
The -e option was added for compatibility with xterm and other
terminals, but it isn't
Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line
options, in particular the one for installing packages without
invoking the GUI that I think was added last year?
I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success,
and invoking setup with -h, -H, -help or --help
2009/6/23 Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com:
The background colour is used for text beneath the cursor, so if the
cursor is visible infront of the background, the text beneath the
cursor should be visible too. With the default white-on-black colours,
you get black text inside a white cursor block.
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode
support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is
largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server.
MinTTY is based on code from
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode
support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is
largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server.
MinTTY is based on code from
For both 1.5 and 1.7:
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.1-1.tar.bz2
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.1-1-src.tar.bz2
Thanks,
Andy
2009/6/18 Thomas.Wolff:
And as a matter of fact,
you can run both xterm and MinTTY with a non-CJK locale and ambiguous
characters being wide. This is achieved by invoking xterm -cjk_width or
by selecting an according font in MinTTY, e.g. Ming, SimSun, MS Mincho,
or even just the popular
Until now I was using cygwin on Windows XP and I was satisfied by
cygwin-1.7 but these last few days
I switched to a more powerful laptop with very fast hardware (Core Duo 3.0
Ghz and SSD OCZ Vertex)
and running windows Seven.
Now when I test cygwin, everything is so sloowww
Not exactly
2009/6/15 Christopher Faylor:
One issue that I've noticed on Windows 7, both with Cygwin 1.5 and
1.7, is that trying to log a utmp entry when starting a terminal can
take up to half a minute, presumably due to waiting for some sort of
timeout.
Sorry but this isn't a much more useful report.
2009/6/13 Ken Brown:
The growth actually occurred with version 22 and was discussed a couple
years ago (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-07/msg00047.html). The
main problem is that the binary itself is huge, so I don't think there's
much I can do about it. Another factor is that there
The emacs package has grown from 6 MB to 20 MB between versions 21 and
23, so I was wondering, what is all that extra stuff? Perhaps it would
be worthwhile splitting less than essential parts off into an
emacs-extras package or some such? That size must be quite off-putting
for people on slow or
No, when Emacs is run in terminal (text-only, non-X-windows)
mode, it will use whatever terminal capability is in effect,
not only in `term-mode'.
Yes, but nevertheless the TERM setting needs to fit the terminal that
Emacs is actually running in, so rxvt (or some variation thereof)
for rxvt
Here are some differences between the terminfo capabilities
'rxvt-cygwin-native' and 'Eterm-256color':
1. max_colors:
rxvt - max_colors: 8
Eterm - max_colors: 256
I'd say it's a bug that the rxvt max_colors entry is 8, since rxvt
does support 256 colours in its default setting. (And I
2009/6/10 Dave Korn:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-48
===
- When running Cygwin applications in the Windows console window, the
Backspace key now returns ASCII DEL (^?, \177) instead of ASCII BS
(^H, \008). The
Me scribbled:
- When running Cygwin applications in the Windows console window, the
Backspace key now returns ASCII DEL (^?, \177) instead of ASCII BS
(^H, \008). The Control-Backspace key now returns ESC-DEL (^[^?,
\033\177) or \377, dependent on the meta mode set by the setmetamode
And then there are rxvt and xterm and their termcap and terminfo
entries as well ...
That I don't understand. What have xterm and rxvt terminals to
do with the cygwin terminal type represented by a Windows console?
Nothing, sorry. Erroneous copy pasting from a previous post.
Andy
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I'm using Win2000-SP4, and I've created a shortcut in the quick launch bar
to start an RXVT terminal with this parameters:
Target: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e bash --login
Start in: C:\cygwin\bin
The problem is when I click this shortcut, the terminal opens and closes
immediately
The likely
2009/6/9 Vincent R.:
I already have the minus...
I have uninstalled and resinstalled mintty but same problem.
I can also see that start menu shortcut is not created anymore.
Ah, packaging bug, sorry. I forgot to include the postinstall and
preremove scripts. I'll upload a corrected 0.4.0-2
I have started cygwin-1.7 setup to update to latest cygwin dll and now when
I start mintty,
seems are very weird.
My terminal looks like a mix between a windows terminal and mintty, for
instance I have the following
text in black and white :
Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600]
(C)
For both 1.5 and 1.7:
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.4.0/cygport/setup.hint
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.0-1.tar.bz2
wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.4.0-1-src.tar.bz2
Thanks,
Andy
2009/6/7 Christopher Faylor:
/sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset: Error. Parsing failed. -
release/mintty/setup.hint(13): unterminated quote for ldesc
Apologies for that. Corrected setup.hint attached.
Is there a way to check these before uploading?
Andy
setup.hint
Description: Binary data
2) if the length of the actual pathname to the DLL is more than 2k wide
characters (e.g. 4k bytes) then issue #1 is made increasingly likely,
Surely anyone with paths like that deserves all the pain that comes
their way. 2k characters means 85 levels of Documents and Settings.
:)
Andy
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2009/6/8 David Arnstein:
can anyone suggest how to get mousewheel working with
1. X11 xterm windows, while at shell prompt.
Not sure that's possible/practical. What would you expect it to do?
2. X11 xterm windows, while in vim.
Put this line in ~/.vimrc:
:set mouse=a
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2009/6/5 Thomas Wolff:
the locale syntax allows for an optional modifier which can be used to
specify deviations, e.g.
de_DE has charmap ISO-8859-1
de...@euro has charmap ISO-8859-15
uz_UZ has charmap ISO-8859-1
uz...@cyrillic has charmap
nit-picking
Thomas, couldn't you have discussed this in the two weeks I was on
vacation? Why did you wait until I implemented the language-based
approach?
/nit-picking
Sorry, that's largely my fault. Among a bunch of other MinTTY issues
we were privately discussing various more or less mad
2009/6/5 Ken Brown:
I guess what I could do is remove the setting from the dialog and
instead make it a config file or command line option only, because
it's not really something that users should normally have to worry
about.
Does the command line option currently exist?
No. Sorry, I
Back to the cygwin list, since this is getting off-topic for cygwin-apps.
2009/6/3 Ken Brown:
On 6/3/2009 10:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On non-English keyboards, the right Alt key is called AltGr and returns
the modifiers Left-Control/Right-Alt.
So maybe the answer is that
2009/6/3 Corinna Vinschen:
Even not knowing the sequence returned by Alt-Backspace, AFAICS, the
right thing to do is to send either ^[^? or \377, dependent on the
setting of dev_state-metabit.
I think that's the right thing to do. I'd pointed out the problem with
Alt+Backspace, but that got
Ah, right. The old CTRL-V method doesn't work for two character
sequences when the second one is ^?. Using stty raw shows that
Alt-Backspace does return what Corinna says above, at least on Ubuntu.
Same on Suse and Debian (well, Knoppix).
Andy
Thomas Wolff:
Checking escape sequences of function keys and keypad keys, there are
many similarities (and common deficiencies) with Linux console and
some weird differences:
* Linux console (SUSE, don't know if it's really consistent) defines
function keys F1...F12 and Shift-F1...Shift-F8
Corinna Vinschen:
What makes me a bit concerned about this change is that, while we can
change Cygwin's terminfo and termcap files, we can't do that for
existing non-Cygwin installations. Is it really safe to change the BS
key to ^? now that the cygwin terminal type is known to return ^H for
I couldn't figure this out. What package to install to get
man 3 printf ?
Search http://cygwin.com/packages for printf.3.
We unfortunately don't have a package of man pages for our C library
functions.
Actually the cygwin-doc package does have man pages for much of the C
standard library.
We unfortunately don't have a package of man pages for our C library
functions.
Actually the cygwin-doc package does have man pages for much of the C
standard library.
D'oh, that's what Dave said in the next sentence.
Sorry,
Andy
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I think there's a minor bug in the way mintty handles the ^H/^? option for
the Backspace key. Suppose you have mintty set up so that Backspace sends
^H (the default). You then use the options menu to change this so that
Backspace sends ^?. Then stty -a still shows erase = ^H, and some
2009/5/31 Roger Head:
Thanks for the reply, Matt. I don't have a really good idea of how Cygwin and
Windows are both supposed to be able to handle .LNKs to e.g. G++, but a dump
of
g++.exe.lnk shows strings for /etc/alternatives and
L:\cygwin\etc\alternatives.
So yes, I don't know if
2009/5/30 Ken Brown:
Now C-h and Backspace work as expected when I run emacs in a Cygwin console,
provided I do stty erase ^? first. Am I right in assuming that this won't
be necessary once the termios default is changed?
Yep.
2009/5/30 Matt Wozniski:
On Debian, at least, the console sends
2009/5/31 Ken Brown:
As I long-time emacs user, I have to say that I have never been tempted to
type Ctrl-Backspace in emacs. But, as a result of this discussion, I just
tried it in three different settings and got three different behaviors.
(The three settings were: emacs under X, emacs in
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Now of course if emacs can translate low-level console I/O as it sees
fit, then the Cygwin DLL could also be able to translate Backspace into
^? characters rather than ^H, in CYGWIN=tty mode anyway. So I had a
look at fhandler_console.cc. It already uses
One more thing: with your change, Alt can be used to override ^? and
get ^H instead. Usually though, Ctrl is used as the modifier for this,
whereas Alt acts as Meta (i.e. it sends a ^[ prefix).
Actually, we could take this one step further. In MinTTY, if Backspace
is set to send ^?,
The Linux console in Opensuse actually does the same thing, and two's
a standard, right? ;)
Actually, no. I emulated the linux console on my system. kterminal and
xterm also makes no distinction that I can see between CTRL-Backspace
and Backspace.
As I said, I've seen the ^_ in the text
Actually, this holy war can be bypassed, without sacrificing Emacs
correctly working on a console. What the console should send for that
is the Backspace function key.
Makes sense to me. Andy, is there any reason all cygwin terminals shouldn't
do this (including mintty)? This already
Actually, this holy war can be bypassed, without sacrificing Emacs
correctly working on a console. What the console should send for that
is the Backspace function key.
Makes sense to me. Andy, is there any reason all cygwin terminals shouldn't
do this (including mintty)? This already
Ken Brown:
A separate issue that has arisen in this thread is that when emacs runs
in a cygwin terminal [*], it sees C-h as DEL instead of as the help key.
Can someone familiar with cygwin terminals help with this? I'm speculating
again (bad habit), but it seems that the keycodes are being
Can cygwin terminals be
configured so that emacs can tell the difference between the Backspace key
and pressing h while holding down the control key?
pressing h while holding down the control key produces ^H (0x08).
By default, this is also what backspace sends. As Andy says, many
(all?)
Sorry, I guess I haven't been expressing myself very well. I wasn't
suggesting any particular course of action, and I certainly don't want to
break other applications.
No worries. I was just trying to explain why the proper and obvious
fix of switching the backspace defaults to ^? might be
As I understand the emacs documentation, the setting TERM=xterm should cause
emacs to load term/xterm.el. In that file I find lines like
(define-key map \eOq [kp-1])
(define-key map \eOr [kp-2])
This looks like the place where emacs should learn to interpret the keypad
keys.
xterm
In an xterm (with TERM=xterm) a few keypad keys do in fact have a (not very
useful) definition: kp-f1, kp-f2, kp-f3, kp-f4 are (incorrectly) mapped to f1,
f2, f3, f4 and kp-enter is correctly mapped.
With xterm's default config, F1 to F4 do actually send the keypad
codes ^[OP to ^[OS. That's
- why do you need to touch the filename at all? I haven't read all of it. Is
the UTF-16 on disk and we need to work around UTF-16 being intractable as C
string?
Yes. If you simply treated each UTF-16 symbol as two chars, you'd get
unintended NULs and slashes. For starters, the upper halves of
Not necessarily better, but here is a chart:
Sys: App: function expects/returns
NULL: NULL: UTF-8
C/UA: NULL: UTF-8
NULL: C/UA: UTF-8
C/UA: C/UA: UTF-8
SPEC: NULL: System Locale
SPEC: C/UA: UTF-8
NULL SPEC: Application Locale
C/UA: SPEC: Application Locale
SPEC:
2009/5/13 Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com:
Cygwin installs to one directory, usually c:\cygwin.
You can choose to use it or not. I really don't understand the
question. Sorry.
Doesn't setup.exe add entries to the Windows registry as well?
Only a few for Cygwin's own use, e.g. for the
2009/5/8 Corinna Vinschen:
Unfortunately I got the reply that this issue cannot be addressed this
time but MSFT will consider addressing the issue in a future version of
Windows.
Forgot to say: thanks for the update.
This is really bad.
Yep. And the workaround with ShowWindowAsync() isn't
2009/5/12 Corinna Vinschen:
Trouble is, there's the thorny issue of the CJK Ambiguous Width
category of characters, which consists of things like Greek and
Cyrillic letters as well as line drawing symbols. Those have a width
of 1 in Western use, yet with CJK fonts they have a width of 2.
How should that work? The first half of the surrogate pair has not
enough information to decide that. For instance, take the ranges
0x10A01, 0x10A03 }, { 0x10A05, 0x10A06 }. The information about the low
10 bits of the Unicode value is in the second half of the pair. From
the first half
Remember, the semantics of fork is that BOTH processes (the parent and
child) must see the SAME memory, and that includes all shared libraries
being mapped at the SAME location. But since Windows doesn't provide a
native fork, the child must remap everything that the parent had, and hope
And here's another question. The utf8*.h files claim they have been
generated from the unicode.txt file of the Unicode 3.2 standard. Do we
have the script which generated the utf8*.h files? Can we regenerate
the files to match the current Unicode 5.1 standard?
There's Markus Kuhn's wcwidth
I am going to present the seminar on Cygwin in my organization.In that
seminar I want to show you can access windows shared folder of any PC
from Cygwin. To demonstrate that I have tried to mount that windows
shared folder in cygwin but it didn't work. When I have searched in
google for it. I
By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package
selection step.
I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style
window to change its size when you press the Next button.
An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :)
No, it wouldn't. The
2009/5/7 Georg Nikodym:
On 7-May-09, at 10:56 AM, Kyeto wrote:
I have disabled DEP and now Cygwin run.
But i have just the pompt with :
bash-3.2$ : _
None commands are available
When i do a ls = command not found.
It's the same for a lot (touch, chmod ...)
But, pwd, cd work
There is now a Cygwin related newsgroup alt.comp.cygwin on mainstream usenet
for
anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists. This group is available on usenet for
access using a conventional newsreader.
If this group is not listed on your usenet server, and you require access to
this group, you
Gus K:
I installed the X server and i get an xterm window
I type emacs but emacs doesnt start
You've started the terminal version of emacs, which just stays quiet
if you put it into the background with ''. Just omit the ''.
(Or, as Ken said, install the X version of emacs and invoke it as
I have installed both versions of cygwin 1.5 and 1.7.
Both seem to work fine with Xserver from 1.5 or 1.7 (i.e. cygwin 1.5
works fine with Xwin from 1.5 and 1.7, cygwin 1.7 works fine with Xwin
from 1.5 and 1.7).
Any recommendation on which one to use?
The 1.7 one, to help testing it. ;)
2009/5/4 Dave Korn:
Yeh. Given the problem in making the data structures restartable, I think
out best bet in the short term might be to a) give people an explicit choice
of upgrade or parallel (default to upgrade) at an earlier screen, and
subsequently gray-out the back button. We could
I just installed Cygwin 1.7, and didn't install any extra packages. Here's
what I see:
r...@varuna ~
$ gunzip -c /etc/setup/base-files.lst.gz | grep GPL-3
usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0
usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-3.0
I'd looked on 1.5 only, where those files aren't present.
2009/4/21 Barry Kelly:
Windows implements console mode as a client-server protocol between the
executable (ntvdm.exe for DOS apps) and winsrv.dll (hosted in
csrss.exe), but the protocol isn't easily hookable. I guess one would
have to hijack the console APIs, perhaps by stepping into the
2009/5/1 Barry Kelly:
ReadConsoleOutput() on the hidden console only
gives you the cooked output in terms of character cell contents and
attributes, whereas the raw output as it came from the console app
would need to be sent to the pty to be displayed by the likes of
screen. As far as I can
This means either installing Cygwin in the root directory of the drive
that you'll commonly be working in with both Windows and Cygwin tools
Speaking of which, it would be nice if setup.exe warned about doing
this only once when you first decide to install in the root directory.
Currently it
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/mintty-0.3.10-1-src.tar.bz2
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/mintty-0.3.10-1.tar.bz2
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/setup.hint
This fixes a couple of bugs introduced in 0.3.9. See
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/mintty-0.3.10-1-src.tar.bz2
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/mintty-0.3.10-1.tar.bz2
http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/pkgs/cygwin/0.3.10-1/setup.hint
This fixes a couple of bugs introduced in 0.3.9. See
2009/4/29 Phil Betts:
Charles Wilson wrote:
* Add -uas (--unixAltSpace) option to bypass Win32 handling
of Alt-Space key combination, and allow client (e.g.
Emacs) to handle it instead.
Thanks for this Chuck.
I can't see what in my previous post got you so worked up
The words
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user
interface and minimalist design. Its terminal emulation is largely
compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server to be
running. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.
This update fixes a couple
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