On May 31 19:30, Yaakov S wrote: > On 2010-05-31 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >What do you all think about a two step plan of first making mintty part > >of the default install and then making it the default terminal? > > In theory, it makes perfect sense, although I wonder if simply > installing mintty by default might still be insufficient for people > to realize that they can/should be using it.
What if Cygwin.bat just contains `start mintty.exe -' rather than `bash --login -i'? Advantages: - Not much of a change in setup. - Still allows to set environment variables before starting the first Cygwin process. - Using the dash allows the user to use the Cygwin shotcut to start his/her login shell as noted in /etc/passwd without having to change /Cygwin.bat. > Well, if you are trying to put across Cygwin as a *NIX platform, > then it makes sense that its default tools provide the functionality > one would expect from *NIX, and as far as a console goes, that means > ptys. > > So as one who strongly opposes the ever-present Cygwin-is-Windows > attitude, and a grateful mintty user, I am very much in favour of > making mintty the default. AOL. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
