Luis Not quite sure that your criticism is of my post is justified. At no point did I say that James should give up on Windows nor give up on Cygwin, only that it is very difficult to get the terminal colors to work exactly how you want in that environment. This is based on considerable experience trying to do precisely this. Nor am I saying that people should not use Windows for Rails or that you cannot have an effective Rails setup with Windows.
What I am saying is that having an effective Unix command prompt in Windows that you can control with as much precision as in linux or OSX is very difficult under Windows. If you want to do this (and I really did want to do this) then the XTerm approach was more effective at trying to control terminal colors consistently in comparison to manipulating the standard cygwin terminal. But whatever you do you will probably have to compromise somewhat your terminal experience in comparison to a proper nix. Andrew 2009/1/22 Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I never could get Cygwin to display terminal colors in a consistent way. > > You'd probably find it easier to install OSX on your laptop! > > > > http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2009/01/amen-brother.html > > > One thing you could do is try and run an XTerm in cygwin perhaps using a > > minimal window manager like ratpoison. This was the best I was able to > > manage in getting a decent terminal on windows (Cygwin Ratpoison and > > Screen), but in the end I gave up it was just to hard :) and > inconsistent. > > > > That needs to run a x server to be able to use Xterm... that is way > more complicated... > > James: can you tell us if you're using cygwin ruby or native one? > > -- > Luis Lavena > AREA 17 > - > Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, > but rather when there is nothing more to take away. > Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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