From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE62188.5050000@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212063131.GE4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com>
On 12/12/2011 1:31 AM, Mike Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:48:01PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> Suggestions for document improvement:
>
> FAQ addition to show how to modify the cygwin.bat file, or a copied file for
> modification, in order to be able to run rxvt to start a better terminal.
> This would solve the issue of users upgrading and their BAT file being broken.
> Be sure to explain that "/bin/" is now required.
>
> Same thing with the main documention. There are pieces about starting the
> shell, but absolutely nothing about using a better terminal (rxvt) and how
> to start/configure it.
>
> Hell, why not make the use of rxvt standard in the default BAT file. The
> rxvt terminal is many times superior to the Windblows cmd terminal.
There is no longer a default BAT file, and the Windows console is no
longer the default terminal. The default terminal is now mintty. The
current setup.exe creates desktop and start menu shortcuts to start it.
This was announced in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-11/msg00043.html
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 5:48 Mike Brown
2011-12-12 6:31 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 7:13 ` Tim McDaniel
2011-12-12 8:01 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 15:45 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-12-12 17:45 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 20:19 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-12 20:28 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-12 21:24 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-12 21:30 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-13 0:11 ` Gary Johnson
2011-12-13 1:38 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-13 2:07 ` mintty Mike Brown
2011-12-13 3:07 ` Latest cygwin.bat - need one Ken Brown
2011-12-13 4:24 ` Mike Brown
2011-12-13 3:12 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-13 11:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
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