2011.05.28. 16:17, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 28 May 2011 11:47, szgyg wrote:
http://szgyg.web.elte.hu/cygwin/base.png
ps: Interesting diagram. What's with the circular dependency?
I don't know. Maybe it was caught by a hippo?
szgyg
On 26 May 2011 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On a closely related note, there's the issue of the mintty postinstall
script. Simply dropping the mintty shortcut creation when setup.exe
is changed would mean that the shortcut would disappear without
2011.05.28. 10:53, Andy Koppe wrote:
Another point worth noting here is that the mintty postinstall script
requires mkshortcut, hence cygutils will be pulled into the default
installation.
Cygutils is already pulled by cygwin-doc.
http://szgyg.web.elte.hu/cygwin/base.png
szgyg
On 28 May 2011 11:47, szgyg wrote:
2011.05.28. 10:53, Andy Koppe wrote:
Another point worth noting here is that the mintty postinstall script
requires mkshortcut, hence cygutils will be pulled into the default
installation.
Cygutils is already pulled by cygwin-doc.
On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe:
...
Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment
was simply called Cygwin rather than Cygwin Bash Shell. I suppose
that could just stay like that
On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe:
...
Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment
was simply called Cygwin rather than Cygwin Bash Shell.
On 26 May 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe:
...
Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment
was
On May 26 12:33, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 26 May 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote:
- Offer the start menu item creation unless either Console or
Terminal is present in the Cygwin folder. If requested, remove
Cygwin Bash Shell and create Console and
On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On a closely related note, there's the issue of the mintty postinstall
script. Simply dropping the mintty shortcut creation when setup.exe
is changed would mean that the shortcut would disappear without
replacement for people updating with a
On May 26 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
That begs for the question why the start menu entry isn't managed
entirely by mintty's postinstall/preremove scripts. In theory we can
reduce setup to ask for the desktop icon. The start menu entry is
On 26 May 2011 13:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 26 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
That begs for the question why the start menu entry isn't managed
entirely by mintty's postinstall/preremove scripts. In theory we can
reduce setup to ask for the
On 24 May 2011 10:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 11:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 23 May 2011 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And who's going to create the patches?
I suppose that should be me, but my spare time is rather limited at
the moment
Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe:
...
Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment
was simply called Cygwin rather than Cygwin Bash Shell. I suppose
that could just stay like that actually.
Also, since the start menu shortcut already is inside the Cygwin
folder,
On May 23 15:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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
On May 23 22:47, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
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
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
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
On May 24 11:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 23 May 2011 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And who's going to create the patches?
I suppose that should be me, but my spare time is rather limited at
the moment and I still owe a patch or two for other
On 24 May 2011 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
I also think the console's start menu entry in the Cygwin folder
should be kept, perhaps with a new name. Console vs Terminal?
Why?
As a straightforward answer to questions along these lines:
- I loved the old
On May 24 12:18, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 24 May 2011 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
I also think the console's start menu entry in the Cygwin folder
should be kept, perhaps with a new name. Console vs Terminal?
Why?
As a straightforward answer to
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:19:08AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 15:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:50:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 11:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 23 May 2011 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And who's going to create the patches?
I suppose that should be me, but my spare time is rather
On May 24 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:50:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 11:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 23 May 2011 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And who's going to create the patches?
I suppose
On 24 May 2011 19:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 13:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
I had a quick look:
dosfilewarning Sets a bool. Has immediate effect.
envcache Ditto.
error_start Sets a string. Has immediate effect.
export Sets a bool. Has effect on
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:42:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 13:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:19:08AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 23 15:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:21:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
IMHO it
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:44:55PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
Adding a field to the mintty options dialog would of course be
possible, but I'd rather not, because those settings have nothing to
do with the terminal. Also, it looks suspiciously like the start of a
slippery slope towards options for
On May 24 15:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:42:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 24 13:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:19:08AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
dosfilewarning Sets a bool. Has immediate effect.
envcache
On 5/23/2011 4:57 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
Maybe when I get home I'll test out a few...
Consolas
Andale Mono
Courier New
Lucida Console
Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu LGC Sans)
Droid Sans Mono
Inconsolata
...
FYI:
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/
--
Chuck
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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