Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-25 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-25, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: > On 8/25/2023 00:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > [snip] > > > >I get borders around both active and inactive windows, but then I've > >spent hours (probably days) messing with registry values in an attempt > >to gain the kind of UI control that

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: > > > Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: > >On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > >> wrote: > >>>This is an upd

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > wrote: > > > > This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago > > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html > > > > Windows 11 now has an "accent color" option

Re: Update of ctags?

2023-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-07-18, Larry via Cygwin wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if the ctags maintainer would consider doing a package > update? Even though the version change is relatively small between the > one available and the latest one (5.8 -> 6.0), almost 100 new language > types have been added. >

Re: mintty mouse behavior with vim

2023-05-11 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-05-11, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: > > On May 11, 2023 2:24 PM, Brian Inglis expressed: > > > If I select columns or lines in vim, then the statusline at the > > bottom of the window shows the number of columns or lines > > selected before the cursor line and column numbers

Re: cygwin update, gvim 8.2. file type plugin, perl script error

2022-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-07-19, Kutty, Rejeesh wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran the installer and it updated vim to 8.2 > > :version > VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Feb 13 2022 22:00:24) > Included patches: 1-4372 > > > Now when I open a perl script, I get the following message: > > Command

Re: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces

2022-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-05-18, André Bleau wrote: > Hi Giovani. > > Giovani Erthal wrote: > > > I'm using rsync to perform backups. But I have errors in paths with spaces. > > > > Source: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Teste com espaço > > Destination: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Destino com espaço > > > > Command: >

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: > On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >You have to select packages explicitly. > > > >It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, > >and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. > I installed everything,

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the >

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the > > > vim I built than the official Cygwin vim? More

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > I build my own copy of Vim for the Cygwin terminal from the source > > at https://github.com/vim/vim.git. Lately, I've noticed the startup > > time getting slower, so

Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-10 Thread Gary Johnson
I build my own copy of Vim for the Cygwin terminal from the source at https://github.com/vim/vim.git. Lately, I've noticed the startup time getting slower, so I investigated. One of the things I discovered was this difference between the run times of the official Cygwin vim package and the vim I

Re: w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2021-12-29, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/29/2021 4:44 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > >So, I have > >a workaround for the problem, but I'd really like a proper fix, and > >there may be other users with this problem. > > w3m currently has no maintainer. Would you like to ta

w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
I recently installed the w3m package. When I tried to display the help page by typing "H", I got only a blank page with this message in the status line: ≪ ↑ ↓ Viewing No Line I did some poking around, ran w3m with strace, and found that w3m runs the script

Re: Editing with vim clears Windows 10 file system archive bit.

2021-11-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2021-11-15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Nov 15 19:54, Christian Franke wrote: > > Steve Ward via Cygwin wrote: > > > Description of problem: > > > While using vim 8.2 on cygwin 3.3 (x86_64) on Windows 10, > > > when editing an existing file with vim and saving it, the Window’s > > >

Re: Trouble with setting ini files : gnuplot and vi

2020-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2020-12-21, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > Despite best efforts I cannot find a way of setting user preferences for vi > (e.g. preferred syntax-sensitive settings) > and gnuplot (e.g. preferred line colours / thickness). > I have tried editing /etc/vimrc, /etc/virc for vi; and >

Re: Possible vim bug

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2020-12-07, Eric Connor via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > I have been experiencing an issue where I’m trying to format columns in vim > using: :*%!column –t*, which had been working great. > > At some point I had to update Cygwin, and (not correlating it to a possible > update issue, until

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2019-03-05, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gary Johnson writes: > > Is this a bug in mintty that it doesn't use a white background for > > the plot? > > No. By default the background in gnuplot is transparent in terminals > that support it. You can set a solid fill color

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2019-03-04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > It is quite straight-forward to run gnuplot without X11 as mintty > will display its output inline: > > export GNUTERM=sixel > > gnuplot -e "splot [x=-3:3] [y=-3:3] sin(x) * cos(y)" That's really nice! I didn't know terminals could do that. I notice that

Opt-In-Data Needs

2018-11-27 Thread Gary Johnson
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Re: Is who -b command available? Need to know when computer was started.

2018-10-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-10-16, Peder Sverdrup via cygwin wrote: > Hi, > > I am making a script and need to know when the computer was last booted. > This can be done with > > who -b command. I have installed the minimum cygwin and this command is not > available. > > Which package do I need to install in order

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-20, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:19:10 -0700 > Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2018/07/19 11:54:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > > "/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh" > > *** Warning: The permissions on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-19, Takashi Yano wrote: > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * inetutils-1.9.4-1 > * inetutils-server-1.9.4-1 > * ping-1.9.4-1 I just updated my Cygwin installation (using setup-x86.exe) a few minutes ago, and Setup reported the following error:

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-11, Mark Hansen wrote: > On 7/11/2018 12:41 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, Mark Hansen! > > > >>I've just updated to the latest Cygwin 64-bit installation on my Windows 7 > >>PC. Included > >>in this update was the package for nc (nc: A simple but powerful network > >>tool)

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-11, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Mark Hansen! > > > I've just updated to the latest Cygwin 64-bit installation on my Windows 7 > > PC. Included > > in this update was the package for nc (nc: A simple but powerful network > > tool) version 1.107-4 > > > After downloading and

Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success

2017-07-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-07-12, Bryan Dunphy wrote: > I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits > for an external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the > volume’s root directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. > How do I get the script to be run repeatedly until

Re: How to get 'Normal' (or higher) version of (x86) vim?

2017-05-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-05-23, Frank Slootweg via cygwin wrote: > I currently have vim version 8.0.596 from the (x64) package > "vim-8.0.0596-1 - vim: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor". > > 'vi --version' says: > > "VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled May 12 2017 11:38:40) > Included patches: 1-596 >

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-27 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-04-27, bonhard wrote: > The command "find /" takes forever, if it completes at all, because of the > need to traverse the induced directory /proc. Is this directory often > needed by users? Can it be skipped by setting up "export CYGWIN=something", > or even by default, with the

Re: cygwin console software

2017-02-26 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-02-27, Goodman Leung wrote: > Hi list > > Minty is go hard to copy , > > Is there any other console software for Cygwin ? Do you mean that it is hard to copy and paste text to and from mintty? I have no trouble at all using it. I don't think there is anything better--or as good--for

Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-12-21, Lester Ingber wrote: > Since gmail inserts extra characters that are not recognized as text, I > am using mutt. > > mutt does not permit adding References: headers. Instead, I seem to be > OK getting > "Message-ID: <...>" > from the Raw link, and changing this to > "In-Reply-To:

Re: profile_d

2016-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-12-06, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/6/2016 9:49 AM, Charlie Perkins wrote: > >Hello anyone, > > > >Could someone tell me what profile_d does? > > > >There doesn't seem to be a man page, info, or any way I can find out! > > It's defined in /etc/profile, shortly before the call to 'profile_d >

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-09-02, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear Gary, > > you are absolutely right. Vim is not the problem. > > I did two changes at the same time and indeed tried the vim -u none > but maybe did not catch the error. > > Finally what causes the error is: > > inoremap > > no my vimrc. From

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-09-02, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear all, > > I just updated my vim and some keys are now broken. > > I'm trying both versions of vim: > vim-7.4.2181-1.tar.xz 07-Aug-2016 21:13 1062348 > and > vim-7.4.1990-1.tar.xz 06-Jul-2016 20:31 > 1055584 > but

Re: Vim and cursor position

2016-02-14 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-02-14, James Darnley wrote: > To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows: > > Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently? Is there some > other recent change that would cause the behaviour described below? > > Vim now appears to be remembering the last position of the

Re: vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

2015-08-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-08-10, grimpen wrote: i have just done a fresh reinstall of cygwin. now vim is misbehaving: for every file i open with vim, vim usually changes the 1st character of the 1st line to g. more exactly, if the 1st line is empty, vim makes no change, if the 1st line contains only blanks,

Re: 2.2.0: possible bug with Vim 7.4.764 and syntax highlight

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-08-04, Xealot wrote: Hello! There seems to be a possible bug with cygwin 2.2.0 in xterm terminal mode (default) and using vim 7.4.764 with syntax highlighting enabled. To verify and reproduce: echo syntax on ~/.vimrc vim -E The prompt at the bottom should now show an escape

Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-04-20, Murthy Gandikota wrote: Then it looks like you have a DOUBLE-compressed file. That is, someone took a .tar.gz file, and ran THAT through gzip again (which seldom does anything except make a LARGER file - because the first round of compression removed any redundancy). Tar

Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug

2015-04-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-04-10, René Berber wrote: On 4/10/2015 2:21 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2015-04-09, René Berber wrote: Why vim on Cygwin doesn't install, or use if you add one, /etc/vimrc? Executing $ vim --version shows system vimrc file: $VIM/vimrc user vimrc file

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-10-01, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file from a Windows app. If I use cygpath -aw TheFile /dev/clipboard I can paste into the Windows file-opener without

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-10-01, Jim Garrison wrote: On 10/1/2014 2:52 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file from a Windows app. [snip] ... but it does remove the trailing \n which chokes

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Gary Johnson
would show. Or just find /etc/passwd. (-print has been the default for decades... The man page it's the default but you should proob) Maybe things have changed. I think Gary Johnson is right. David is right: find does accept a file name as the path argument. I didn't know

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Paul.Domaskis writes: Paul.Domaskis writes: I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type ls _

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-09 Thread Gary Johnson
I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Cygwin installed on a Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 system. I can confirm that using a Cygwin Terminal, cc works on the 32-bit installation but not on the 64-bit installation. There is no connection between the vi mode of the bash command line and Vim.

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: To clarify this request a bit: Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a command. The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-1. That has not been my experience. In my

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: To clarify this request a bit: Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a command. The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-1

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Gary Johnson! I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here feature from the Windows file manager Send to context menu, much like chere but without having to mess with the registry. The hardest part was getting

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Gary Johnson! I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here feature from the Windows file manager Send to context menu, much like chere but without having to mess

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: To clarify this request a bit: Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a command. The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-1. That has not been my experience. In my experience, run-1.2.0-1 works fine but 1.3.0-1

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-02-04, mrushton wrote: I am loving Cygwin. I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some newbie questions. These are all general Unix/Linux questions, not specific to Cygwin, and are therefor not appropriate for discussion on the cygwin list. That said, I don't

Re: How to disable all syntax coloring in Cygwin/bash?

2013-12-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-16, Chris Wolf wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Chris Wolf wrote: I just installed a recent release of Cygwin and notice that it now features syntax highlighting. Is there a way to totally disable this? All I want is be able to set the foreground/background colors via

Re: vim not working as an editor for git

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-06, Adrian Hawryluk wrote: If I use gvim as my editor, it executes gvim and returns right away, not waiting for gvim to terminate. This appears to be another bug. I don't know about the first issue, but this issue is not a bug. By default, gvim launches into the background. To

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-06, Björn Kautler wrote: 2013/12/6 Christopher Faylor: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Bj?rn Kautler wrote: Do my messages come through at all? No-one answers or cares about this one. :-( Either it is this: 1) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM Or maybe this: 2)

Re: checking in = 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-08, Warren Young wrote: On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: Checking in a text file of size = 256k corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents It's

Re: VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

2013-10-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-03, Paul King wrote: Hello I have tried to get vim's vundle package to work under Cygwin64, and it appears as though vim doesn't understand most of the package. Vundle works under 32-bit Cygwin, but something in the way the 64-bit version was compiled looks in the wrong place for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.3.0-1

2013-09-30 Thread Gary Johnson
Any updates on this? Any other information we can provide to expedite a fix? I just had my PC upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 and have been reinstalling various applications including Cygwin. I'm using the 32-bit version because not all the packages I use are available for 64-bit Cygwin.

Re: pango1.0.sh exit code 1

2013-08-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-08-01, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Martin Baute wrote: The libpango1.0 postinstall script fails with exit code 1 Same here on a W7 box (cygwin32). Same workaround. Strangely, on XP it worked fine some time ago (probably in the 2009).. As I reported in an earlier thread (Recent Cygwin

Re: Recent Cygwin problems

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-06-21, Gary Johnson wrote: I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems and my installation seems corrupted. 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.exe I get this pop-up message

Recent Cygwin problems

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Johnson
I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems and my installation seems corrupted. 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.exe I get this pop-up message part way through the process.

Re: vim-7.3.943-1 missing command 'let g:colors_name = elflord' found in vim-common-7.3.943-1

2013-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-05-16, Kenneth Salerno wrote: Where: vim-7.3.943-1 Issue: vim-common-7.3.943-1 contains /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/elflord.vim which utilizes the command let g:colors_name = elflord, this command is not found in /usr/bin/vim-nox from package vim-7.3.943-1 Fix: downgrade to

Re: ln -s do not work

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-04-20, Arthur Tu wrote: After I did this: $ ln -s Repos/bugn/ Projects/ A file named `bugn` is created under Projects, as it is said in the cygwin documentation. However, cygwin does recognise `bugn` as a link file, while can't determine where it point to. I draged the file to

Re: bash-completion load times

2013-04-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-03-27, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Having bash-completion installed significantly slows down starting a new Cygwin Bash login shell. It's a problem I've noticed, and I've seen other users report it on this list and elsewhere, too. I've done a bit of digging into what the problem is, and

ISC DHCPv6 Server?

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Johnson
Has anyone built the ISC DHCPv6 server on Cygwin? I downloaded the latest source, dhcp-4.2.4-P2, saw that it contained some checks for __CYGWIN__ and __CYGWIN32__ and tried ./configure and make but make failed with the following. make[2]: Entering directory

Re: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-10-20, Lawrence Mayer wrote: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard e.g. ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form) ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\*  (4th form) cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY all fail returning error message 'cannot stat `WINDOWS PATH\\*': No such

Re: Enlarging the Dos box window and font

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-09-13, Lars Bjørndal wrote: When I give a lecture or a speech, I use to display some text to the listeners. I create simple HTML pages, that I display on a projector. Because I'm blind, I need to have the same text on a braille display. I want to use a text based web browser, lynx, so

Re: Strange behaviour of mutt.exe

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-09-07, Stepan Yakovenko wrote: HI! To reproduce the problem, launch mutt from command line: mutt -f cygwin.mutt.glitch.eml open mail and press 'v' to view attachmets. Then press 's' to save attachment. Result of saving is different on linux and windows (see files attached).

Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)

2012-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-08-08, marco atzeri wrote: On 8/8/2012 11:11 AM, AngusC wrote: DO NOT TOP POST ! I did try the --include way but in Cygwin it didn't work for some reason. Both of these work fine for me in Cygwin (on Windows XP): grep -nH -r my pattern --include *.log . grep -nH -r my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.566-1

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-07-08, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** vim-7.3.566-1 *** vim-common-7.3.566-1 *** xxd-7.3.566-1 *** gvim-7.3.566-1 Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi',

Re: How to run cygwin on boot

2012-04-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-04-05, marco atzeri wrote: On 4/5/2012 9:41 AM, J.V. wrote: I need to run a .bat file on startup that will launch a cygwin bash script. I can put the .bat file in the folder startup to connect some network drives and then I want to launch a bash script. Can this be done? thanks

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used strcmp from the start. I don't know, the original authors seem to have gotten it right, as version 5.7 works correctly on my Fedora

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-28, Peter Rosin wrote: Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used strcmp from the start. I don't know, the original

Re: Mintty Log Off problem

2012-02-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-18, David Rothenberger wrote: On 2/18/2012 10:28 AM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away if I change my default shell to dash. Seems tcsh is involved somehow. It comes back when I change my default shell back to tcsh. Going

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote: On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Emlio! The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is: $ EDITOR=nano; And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again. You may need to export EDITOR as

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote: Hi all I'm using cygwin in order to use cron under an XP machine. When I run the command $ crontab -e I get a vi (vim?) editor, but I'm not able to use it propertly. After pressing insert the keyboard doesn't work properly. For example, if I press the

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: Gary Johnson garyjohn at spocom.com writes: mintty -e tail -f foo The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent with those I write for other terminals. HTH, Gary This is very close, but I need it to start

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: Gary Johnson garyjohn at spocom.com writes: I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in the new terminal. As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.out

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-11, Jon Hughes wrote: What I want to do is open a new cygwin window with a tail command, so I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax to do essentially this: cygstart sh tail -f foo

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-12-12, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 12/12/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Brown wrote: In my case that is a no go. That is because, as mentioned, I told the installer not to create the desktop shortcut or the start menu option, as I already had them. So, the start menu currently points to the BAT

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. --all

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: After opening man ls, trying to search for --all leads to Pattern not found (press RETURN). Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of search to work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, that does not seem to work in Cygwin,

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. --all

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: On 11/29/2011 5:13 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen. Not sure that is the same problem. What happens if you search for --all in man ls? For me, the display

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. --all

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/29/2011 9:29 PM, carolus wrote: Then maybe I just need to update my Cygwin installation, which is about a year old. Are you using the old default windows terminal like me, or rxvt, mintty, xterm, or maybe something else? Works for me in mintty

Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

2011-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-08-07, Eliot Moss wrote: On 8/7/2011 9:16 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: Am 30.07.2011 14:14, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! For every shell code that I write, I'd like it to be portable both to Cygwin on Windows, and to Ubuntu Linux for example. It's kinda

Re: vi and vim

2010-08-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-08-11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote: Hello, At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to use vi instead of vim in cygwin? I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't linked to one

How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
I just updated to the latest Vim 7.3 changeset on my Linux system and after building it noticed that the conceal feature wasn't included. I tried to enable it using ./configure --enable-cscope --enable-conceal but got this warning: configure: WARNING: unrecognized options:

Re: How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-07-23, Gary Johnson wrote: I just updated to the latest Vim 7.3 changeset on my Linux system and after building it noticed that the conceal feature wasn't included. I tried to enable it using ./configure --enable-cscope --enable-conceal but got this warning: configure

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-1.24-1

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-04-08, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I've uploaded a new version astyle, 1.24-1, in keeping with the current upstream release. For a list of changes check out http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle_release_notes.html. I get error 404 from this URL. The Release Notes link from the main page

Re: Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: Gary Johnson  When I execute screen, however, the mintty window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49.  This shrinking does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing screen. I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find

Re: Cygwin Terminal Type

2010-03-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-17, Nick Calvert wrote: Hi all, This is a border line flame worthy question as I´m acting as a proxy for a developer. Please go easy... I have an elaborate, slightly dirty but fully functional system in place whereby Windows machines are automated via a Linux Ruby application

Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Johnson
I've been using rxvt and rlogin (through a VPN) on a Windows laptop at home to connect to a computer running Linux at work. To help with that I have a shortcut on my Desktop that contains this Target: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/rxvt --geometry =157x49+0+0 --backspacekey ^H -T lnxcomp1 -e

Re: Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: Gary Johnson  When I execute screen, however, the mintty window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49.  This shrinking does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing screen. I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-03, Andy Koppe wrote: Gary Johnson: I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. You're right, there isn't, as documented.  I could echo the escape

mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Johnson
I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal I use. I could wrap mintty in a shell

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-03, Reid Thompson wrote: On 3/2/2010 9:07 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the escape sequences in my

Re: Missing xdvi

2010-01-22 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-01-22, Xianwen Chen wrote: Hello friends, I've installed all tetex-* packages, howver, I can't find xdvi. Should I compile it from source myself? Thank you in advance for any hint! Searching the Cygwin Package List (http://cygwin.com/packages/) for xdvi results in a number of hits

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-01-20, indrek wrote: Hi I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. make | grep --color=always -C error HTH, Gary --

Re: can not enter password for SSH when running in another terminal (RXVT)

2009-12-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-15, Leo Lagos wrote: Hi... I've got the following problem, that I'll describe with the steps, so You can reproduce it... 1. open cygwin (normal black command prompt window) 2. run rxvt -e bash from there 3. on the rxvt terminal, execute an ssh to any host Now, what happens is

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-13, Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-13, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/13 Marc Girod: I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs

Re: BASH Shell - Configuration Problem?

2009-12-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-11, rgc3679 wrote: I haven't used cygwin or bash in 5 years, but I need to write a bash script for my ISP to test JavaMail. I can't get simple things to work, so I'm wondering if maybe I have a bash shell config issue. I did update cygwin to the latest. [...] Notice how the echo

Re: How to print the full Windows path inside the sed command?

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-09, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Chip Panarchy wrote: Then I ran the following command from command-prompt; find2 . -follow -type f | sed -e s|^\.|PATH| -e s|^|File:\t| Is there a command (from Cygwin/Linux: PATH) which I can use to print the full directory path? Please tell

Re: How to print the full Windows path inside the sed command?

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-10, Chip Panarchy wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2009-12-09, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Chip Panarchy wrote: Then I ran the following command from command-prompt; find2 . -follow -type f | sed -e s|^\.|PATH| -e s|^|File:\t

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