setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 20 17:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The setup.exe download is still 2.738. Could it be updated to 2.749 to include jturney's recent bug fixes? I'd like to fix the mintty issue first. So, do we swtch to mintty as default terminal, yes or no? If we switch to mintty we don't need the

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/23/2011 7:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 20 17:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The setup.exe download is still 2.738. Could it be updated to 2.749 to include jturney's recent bug fixes? I'd like to fix the mintty issue first. So, do we swtch to mintty as default terminal, yes or

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/23/2011 7:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 20 17:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The setup.exe download is still 2.738. Could it be updated to 2.749 to include jturney's recent bug fixes? I'd like to fix the mintty issue first. So, do

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: as-is. What if you really WANT to use cmdbox? How else can a cygwin-shell-in-cmdbox be started, other than a .bat file of some kind? And since that's the only real way to do so, we ought

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/23/2011 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever) to the global PATH as well. I disagree. I deliberately keep cygwin paths out of my global

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 23 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: as-is. What if you really WANT to use cmdbox? How else can a cygwin-shell-in-cmdbox be started, other than a .bat file of some kind? And

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread marco atzeri
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: as-is.  What if you really WANT to use cmdbox?  How else can a cygwin-shell-in-cmdbox

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:16:42PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/23/2011 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever) to the global PATH as well.

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:21:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: as-is. What if you really WANT to use cmdbox? How else can a

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Koppe
On 23 May 2011 17:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: Uhm, maybe? :-) Here's the deal: run the following program from the ncurses-demo package:       /usr/lib/ncurses/test/lrtest.exe in a mintty terminal and bash-in-cmdbox, with the same UTF-8 $LANG settings

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Koppe
On 23 May 2011 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 20 17:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The setup.exe download is still 2.738.  Could it be updated to 2.749 to include jturney's recent bug fixes? I'd like to fix the mintty issue first. So, do we swtch to mintty as default terminal, yes or

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: What it should be called: a) mintty: Few are going to know what that is. b) Cygwin Bash Shell: That's the current name of course. Not compatible with option 1 above. c) Cygwin Shell: Shell-neutral, but encourages the confusion between

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/23/2011 3:42 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 23 May 2011 17:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: In the former, I see pseudo-line drawing characters (e.g hyphens and plus signs, etc), but in the latter I see real line draw characters. Whatever that is, I guess it

RE: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, May 23, 2011 1:26 PM Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever) to the global PATH as well.