From: Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: CYGWIN=tty round 2
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDAEBEC.6030704@ece.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306119201.4572.4.camel@YAAKOV04>
On 22/05/2011 10:53 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 17:19 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I don't think we saw anyone step forward with a valid reason why they
>> needed to use CYGWIN=tty over something like "mintty".
>>
>> I've summarized the thread where Corinna asked why people used CYGWIN=tty
>> over CYGWIN=notty below.
>>
>> I don't see any showstoppers here so unless people can provide specific
>> examples of how this change would cause hardwhip, we'll be removing
>> CYGWIN=tty in a snapshot near you soon.
> I could add XWin:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9763
>
> And once again, using mintty is a solution.
>
> Since mintty is the solution to so many of these scenarios, shouldn't we
> make it the default terminal (IOW add mintty to Base and replace the
> Cygwin.bat shortcut with mintty's)? The status quo just encourages
> people to use a deficient terminal without any idea that a better one
> exists.
I would be happy to see mintty as the default. Since discovering it I
essentially stopped using X because xterm was my main reason for firing
it up.
However... isn't there some dire warning that gdb only will ever work
properly (some of the time) from within a vanilla console window?
Something to do with ^C handling?
Mind you, I'd love that restriction to be lifted, but it sounded pretty
hard and fast the last few times the topic came up. On the other hand,
most casual cygwin users won't be needing gdb often, if ever, so that
might not be enough reason to keep the console over mintty.
Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-22 21:19 Christopher Faylor
2011-05-23 2:53 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2011-05-23 6:02 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-23 17:27 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-23 11:49 ` Andy Koppe
2011-05-23 15:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-05-23 23:21 ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
2011-05-24 6:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-24 9:54 ` Ryan Johnson
2011-05-23 9:36 ` Sven Köhler
2011-05-23 11:13 ` David Sastre
2011-05-23 21:24 Angelo Graziosi
2011-05-23 21:41 ` Fahlgren, Eric
2011-05-23 22:27 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-05-23 22:01 Angelo Graziosi
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