Re: No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, ben modra! Please don't top-post and teach your mail reader to properly handle "References" or "In-Reply-to" headers. >>> Hi, >>> After performing a standard (default) install using setup-x86.exe, >>> there are no shortcuts in the start menu or desktop. I don't really >>> mind but don

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:16:00PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >> Perhaps you aren't a native English speaker and incorrectly took offense >> at the mild term "gobbledegook" which was not directed at you. I was >> referring to the author of the web page

re: No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread ben modra
Thanks Duncan, I thought there must be more to it than that - if I run bash.exe then nothing works. Even basic commands like cygcheck and ls return 'command not found'. Other ways to start also fail, eg startxwin.exe then a window opens and immediately closes. The setup log seems fine to me (no e

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > Perhaps you aren't a native English speaker and incorrectly took offense > at the mild term "gobbledegook" which was not directed at you. I was > referring to the author of the web page that you referenced. If that is > the author of ConEmu then he reall

Re: GIT

2014-04-26 Thread Eliot Moss
Another suggestion w.r.t. git. While I realize the I am perhaps (probably) losing some of the touted strengths of git, I tend to use it as a front-end (client side) to subversion repos. Therefore I tend to use a simple subversion-like workflow. It's one way to get started with git. You could "b

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > Anyway, this should be fixed in the latest snapshot: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > cgf Nice! It works fine now. Thank you very much for that, because it was really pain for me. I appreciate that. Have a nice day. -- David Ferenczy http://tw

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > I duplicated this. The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this > behavior. I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of > console handling changes but this one must have slipped by. > > It's a shame that, when I repeatedly asked

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 06:21:55PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >> "doesn't send ANSI codes to the console" doesn't make a lot of sense. >> "Cygwin" doesn't send ANSI codes to the windows console since the windows >> console doesn't understand ANSI codes.

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > "doesn't send ANSI codes to the console" doesn't make a lot of sense. > "Cygwin" doesn't send ANSI codes to the windows console since the windows > console doesn't understand ANSI codes. I didn't know that. So how does it work, that I'm able to set cmd.ex

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-2

2014-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Please report any problems or suggestions on the main Cygwin mailing list. Changes: 4.2-2 (bugfix release) * LC_ALL is set to "C" during profile.d execution so it can't be used for testing whether or not to set LANG se

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > "doesn't send ANSI codes to the console" doesn't make a lot of sense. > "Cygwin" doesn't send ANSI codes to the windows console since the windows > console doesn't understand ANSI codes. > > I don't see the behavior that you are specifying but I doubt tha

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:36:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I don't see the behavior that you are specifying... I duplicated this. The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this behavior. I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of console handling changes but this

Re: No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread V.99
On 26.4.2014 11:35, ben modra wrote: Hi, After performing a standard (default) install using setup-x86.exe, there are no shortcuts in the start menu or desktop. I don't really mind but don't know how to initiate cygwin without it. Its a work pc, which means I have little control over the system

Re: No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:35:03PM +1000, ben modra wrote: > Hi, > After performing a standard (default) install using setup-x86.exe, > there are no shortcuts in the start menu or desktop. I don't really > mind but don't know how to initiate cygwin without it. > > Its a work pc, which means I have

No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread ben modra
Hi, After performing a standard (default) install using setup-x86.exe, there are no shortcuts in the start menu or desktop. I don't really mind but don't know how to initiate cygwin without it. Its a work pc, which means I have little control over the system, and it has been meddled with quite a

Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

2014-04-26 Thread Houder
> I'm still having issues with applications which use alternative screen for > output (LESS, MAN). When I exit that application, its output stays on > screen, prompt is displayed over it. > > My system is as follows: > [snip] > Example steps to reproduce the issue: > > 1. execute "man grep" > 2. s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: check-0.9.12-1

2014-04-26 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Thanks Yaakov. Op 26-4-2014 2:24 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) schreef: The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * check-0.9.12-1 Check is a unit test framework for C. This is an update to the latest upstream version. Yaakov -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.x