From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Need general snapshot testers
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179706920.20140221161711@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140221085233.GX2246@calimero.vinschen.de>
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >>>>> Not specific to this snapshot but it happens when trying to test it:
>> >>>>> If a cygwin console is started from a cygwin terminal (e.g. in mintty:
>> >>>>> cygstart /Cygwin.bat), the TERM variable is set incorrectly.
>> >>>>> Suggested fix: ... unset TERM to Cygwin.bat.
>> >>>> unset would be better (more neutral) choice in a long-term, IMO.
>> >>> Actually, unset doesn't exist in cmd (blush).
>> >>> It should be "set TERM=" then.
>> >> However you spell it :)
>> >> Using same assignment in shell would have nearly equal results.
>> > Having something like case `tty` in /dev/cons*) TERM=cygwin;; esac in
>> > /etc/profile would be a clumsy workaround and possibly have tricky glitches.
>>
>> Except not every shell read /etc/profile
>>
>> > My proposal catches the issue at its root in the simplest way.
>> > I would provide a patch (if needed) if I had an idea in which package
>> > Cygwin.bat is hiding;-)
>>
>> It's autogenerated.
> ...by setup itself. Changing this would require to create a new setup.
> Is it worth it?
It's not a priority, but something that needs fix.
> I mean, how often do people start Cygwin.bat from
> mintty? I never occured to me to do that at all :}
> And if so, why not just call it like this:
> $ TERM=cygwin cygstart /Cygwin.bat
For that, you need to know, that you need to do it this way.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.02.2014, <16:15>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-21 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 19:12 Christopher Faylor
2014-02-19 13:38 ` Bengt Larsson
2014-02-19 14:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-19 15:05 ` Bengt Larsson
2014-02-20 18:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-20 20:08 ` Andrew Schulman
2014-02-20 22:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-27 18:23 ` Thorsten Kampe
2014-02-27 21:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-28 12:07 ` Thorsten Kampe
2014-02-19 20:41 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-02-19 22:53 ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-19 22:55 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-02-20 1:42 ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-21 7:50 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-02-21 8:13 ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-21 8:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-21 12:54 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-02-21 14:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-20 2:05 Console buffer jumble Steven Penny
2014-02-20 8:36 ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-25 21:06 ` Steven Penny
2014-03-09 20:38 ` Need general snapshot testers/console " Christopher Faylor
2014-03-10 4:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-03-10 6:47 ` Steven Penny
2014-03-10 9:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-03-10 9:58 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-03-10 11:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-03-11 21:25 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-03-12 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-03-12 9:43 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-03-12 12:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-03-12 12:17 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-03-12 20:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-03-10 17:37 ` Bengt Larsson
2014-03-11 0:11 ` Latest snapshot has fixes Christopher Faylor
2014-03-11 2:06 ` Bengt Larsson
2014-02-27 17:07 ` Console buffer jumble Steven Penny
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