RE: MinTTY

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@att.net>]

Hey Andy,

After a thorough 2-minute evaluation, I can give you the following feedback:

1.  Good work.
2.  Super fast.
3.  Cut and paste in a Unixoid terminal for Cygwin finally conforms to
Windows norms (AKA "The One True Way").  That alone is worth it.
4.  I wasn't getting color from ls, but that appears to be a
termcap/terminfo/wrong-bash-invocation issue, as your screenshots clearly
show color support.
5.  It needs a regular Windows installer.
5a. I'm good with Windows installers.  You want I should whip one up for
you?

This will likely become my default terminal unless a more thorough
evaluation turns up some showstopper.  Excellent work!

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> From: Gary R. Van Sickle
> 
> Hmm, looks very interesting, I'll give it a try and report 
> back to the class.  I've been looking for a replacement for 
> my preferred terminal emulator, MedicineTTY, for quite some time. ;-)
> 
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
>  
> 
> > From: Andy Koppe
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to introduce "MinTTY", a terminal emulator for 
> > Cygwin that I've been working on for a while. It is based on 
> > the terminal emulation and Windows frontend parts of PuTTY 
> > 0.60 by Simon Tatham and his team.
> > 
> > Unlike PuTTYcyg, MinTTY discards PuTTY's networking 
> > functions, which are already convered by Cygwin's ssh and 
> > telnet packages. This results in simpler configuration, a 
> > leaner interface and small code size. MinTTY's most obvious 
> > difference to rxvt is its native Windows interface and 
> > configuration dialog.
> > 
> > More info, as well as the latest sources and binary can be 
> > found on the project page:
> > 
> >    http://code.google.com/p/mintty
> > 
> > The MinTTY discussion group can be found at:
> > 
> >    http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss
> > 
> > I hope you'll give MinTTY a try, and I'm looking forward to 
> > feedback and questions. Bug reports and feature requests can 
> > be sent via the issue tracker on the project page.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Andy
> > 


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