On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:27 PM, John Little wrote: > >> Why is Windows "QuickEdit mode" command prompt unable to do the same? >> That seems incredible. > > xterm (and so many of its emulators) defines an escape sequence that > requests mouse events to be passed to the app as escape sequences. > cmd.exe presumably lacks such a mechanism. It seems to be a bare- > bones terminal emulator; the solution would be to find a better one, > or use gvim.
I'd personally highly recommend PuTTY over cmd.exe + cygwin ssh. Cygwin is great for a lot of things, but setting up a Cygwin environment just for ssh is like using a cruise missile to light a cigarette. If you really want to work with Cygwin, I'd go with Cygwin + X11 + xterm + ssh... if you've got a full unix environment set up, might as well use it. xterm is a much more feature-filled terminal emulator than cmd.exe, and mouse support will Just Work for you with both Cygwin/X + xterm and with PuTTY. As far as colors go, CSApprox[1] is a great plugin. (Full disclosure, I am the author). Assuming you have a 256 color terminal (both xterm and PuTTY are), it does a fantastic job of making colorschemes in the terminal look almost identical to how they look in gvim. If your $TERM variable already advertises 256 color support, things usually Just Work, and if not the only setup required is to get your terminal to correctly set $TERM (or to kludge vim's setup to assume that $TERM == 'xterm' always means 256 colors are available, for instance). ~Matt [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2390 -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
