From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9255 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2009 04:22:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 9244 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jan 2009 04:22:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from simon.codemeta.com (HELO simon.codemeta.com) (199.125.75.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:21:43 +0000 Received: by simon.codemeta.com (Postfix, from userid 115) id C969F44ACD; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simon.codemeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B84E44AAC for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <49700B4B.9020304@veritech.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:20:00 -0000 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc. References: <496A5EDE.9010204@veritech.com> <496A7038.402@gmail.com> <496B7C25.3090705@veritech.com> <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00484.txt.bz2 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 started like that. > I'll work on that habit. Thanks. >> 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 >> again. > > 'net' is a troublesome command that's been mentioned, although it > seems to be ok for basic stuff. But I guess there might be still be a > few DOS fullscreen apps around. Turbo Pascal perhaps? But yeah, I'd > sooner implement tabs than worry about DOS apps. ;) > rudimentary 'net' works. >> > I didn't know xterm actually had a UI for this. Do people find >> > this useful? >> >> I've used it on occasion when I needed to scroll back through two >> debugging runs of a text-mode (character cell) app (or debugging >> statements). > > So your debug print macro or whatever would be switching screens? > No. Me at the terminal switches screens, using the options menu, before the second run. >> What would be better for this and other problems, however, is a >> feature that I would love: The ability to interactively, on the >> fly change, the Title Bar/Task Bar Title to be clear on what each >> Window is doing. > > Can you explain the "interactive" bit a bit more. Do you mean clicking > on the window title and start typing away at it? > Exactly what I had in mine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/