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To: cygwin@cygwin.com cygwin@cygwin.com
Sent: Thu Jan 15 23:21:31 2009
Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
\e[1;5A: history-search-backward
\e[1;5B: history-search
Ashok Vadekar wrote:
Apologies for violating sane quoting convention, but I'm working off a crapberry.
Wrt to window titles: change your PS1 prompt to no longer reassign the title with the pwd (assuming you still have the default definition from /etc/profile (or similar)) and use the same
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
In my 25 years of working on such systems I can probably count on 2 fingers
the number of times such a situation has arose and what I did was Control-C
then Control-R again.
Sure. I'm not disagreeing; I was more looking for a plausible
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Speaking of history, does anyone know why xterm and rxvt diverged so much on
modifier keycodes and why the xterm codes ended up being six characters
long?
Because rxvt failed to adhere to the relevant standards[1].
[1]
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
\e[1;5A: history-search-backward
\e[1;5B: history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't
seem to work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line
in the history that
Andy Koppe wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I
can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any
trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a
Kit app), I found a work-around and
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
--
Chuck
Nice example! Who is Chuck?
Me. As I explained to Andy off-list, the 'Virtual Identify' Thunderbird
plugin got kinda confused, and tried to pass off my email as if Andy had
sent it. Bad Virtual Identity! No Cookie!
--
Chuck
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Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
\e[1;5A: history-search-backward
\e[1;5B: history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't
seem to work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line in
the history that started like that.
I
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I
can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any
trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a
Resource Kit app), I found a work-around and never needed it
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
\e[1;5A: history-search-backward
\e[1;5B: history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem
to work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line
in the history that
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Why not simply type Ctrl-R then the first few letters of a command (or some
letters in the middle of a command). Works great! Requires no support from
any terminal emulator...
True, but that's only one direction of history search, albeit
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
\e[1;5A: history-search-backward
\e[1;5B: history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem
to work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line
in the history that started like that.
Why not
Chuck Wilson wrote:
full screen or DOS is a red herring. Any program that does something
like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't work in rxvt
(or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty):
#include stdio.h
main() {
int c;
while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c,
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 05:44:09AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
Chuck Wilson wrote:
full screen or DOS is a red herring. Any program that does
something like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't
work in rxvt (or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty):
#include stdio.h
main()
Mark J. Reed wrote:
True, but that's only one direction of history search, albeit the most
commonly useful one. For those cases where you're somewhere back in
your history and need to search forward, what do you do?
In my 25 years of working on such systems I can probably count on 2
fingers
Andy Koppe wrote:
Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
Hi, I've taken a first pass at distilling my experience with
'mintty' and the [ahem] discussion, here, about it into a text
file (see attachment mintty.{h})
Thanks, that's a nice surprise!
Okay, since you at least didn't hate it, I'll plug it into
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