Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-25 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-25, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: > On 8/25/2023 00:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > [snip] > > > >I get borders around both active and inactive windows, but then I've > >spent hours (probably days) messing with registry values in an attempt > >to gain the kind of UI control that wa

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: > > > Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: > >On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > >> wrote: > >>>This is an upd

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > wrote: > > > > This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago > > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html > > > > Windows 11 now has an "accent color" option u

Re: Update of ctags?

2023-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-07-18, Larry via Cygwin wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if the ctags maintainer would consider doing a package > update? Even though the version change is relatively small between the > one available and the latest one (5.8 -> 6.0), almost 100 new language > types have been added. >

Re: mintty mouse behavior with vim

2023-05-11 Thread Gary Johnson via Cygwin
On 2023-05-11, Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin wrote: > > On May 11, 2023 2:24 PM, Brian Inglis expressed: > > > If I select columns or lines in vim, then the statusline at the > > bottom of the window shows the number of columns or lines > > selected before the cursor line and column numbers and

Re: cygwin update, gvim 8.2. file type plugin, perl script error

2022-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-07-19, Kutty, Rejeesh wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran the installer and it updated vim to 8.2 > > :version > VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Feb 13 2022 22:00:24) > Included patches: 1-4372 > > > Now when I open a perl script, I get the following message: > > Command termi

Re: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces

2022-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-05-18, André Bleau wrote: > Hi Giovani. > > Giovani Erthal wrote: > > > I'm using rsync to perform backups. But I have errors in paths with spaces. > > > > Source: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Teste com espaço > > Destination: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Destino com espaço > > > > Command: >

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: > On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >You have to select packages explicitly. > > > >It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, > >and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. > I installed everything, but

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the >

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > So, does anyone know why is takes so much longer for bash to run the > > > vim I built than the official Cygwin vim? More

Re: Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > I build my own copy of Vim for the Cygwin terminal from the source > > at https://github.com/vim/vim.git. Lately, I've noticed the startup > > time getting slower,

Bash runs my vim slower than Cygwin's vim

2022-03-10 Thread Gary Johnson
I build my own copy of Vim for the Cygwin terminal from the source at https://github.com/vim/vim.git. Lately, I've noticed the startup time getting slower, so I investigated. One of the things I discovered was this difference between the run times of the official Cygwin vim package and the vim I

Re: w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2021-12-29, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/29/2021 4:44 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > >So, I have > >a workaround for the problem, but I'd really like a proper fix, and > >there may be other users with this problem. > > w3m currently has no maintainer. Would you like

w3m displays blank help page

2021-12-29 Thread Gary Johnson
I recently installed the w3m package. When I tried to display the help page by typing "H", I got only a blank page with this message in the status line: ≪ ↑ ↓ Viewing No Line I did some poking around, ran w3m with strace, and found that w3m runs the script /usr/libexec/w3m/cgi-bin/w3mhe

Re: Editing with vim clears Windows 10 file system archive bit.

2021-11-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2021-11-15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > On Nov 15 19:54, Christian Franke wrote: > > Steve Ward via Cygwin wrote: > > > Description of problem: > > > While using vim 8.2 on cygwin 3.3 (x86_64) on Windows 10, > > > when editing an existing file with vim and saving it, the Window’s > > >

Re: Trouble with setting ini files : gnuplot and vi

2020-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2020-12-21, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > Despite best efforts I cannot find a way of setting user preferences for vi > (e.g. preferred syntax-sensitive settings) > and gnuplot (e.g. preferred line colours / thickness). > I have tried editing /etc/vimrc, /etc/virc for vi; and > /etc/X11/app-

Re: Possible vim bug

2020-12-07 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2020-12-07, Eric Connor via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > I have been experiencing an issue where I’m trying to format columns in vim > using: :*%!column –t*, which had been working great. > > At some point I had to update Cygwin, and (not correlating it to a possible > update issue, until recent

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2019-03-05, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gary Johnson writes: > > Is this a bug in mintty that it doesn't use a white background for > > the plot? > > No. By default the background in gnuplot is transparent in terminals > that support it. You can set a solid fill c

Re: Request to support wxt terminal ( Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1)

2019-03-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2019-03-04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > It is quite straight-forward to run gnuplot without X11 as mintty > will display its output inline: > > export GNUTERM=sixel > > gnuplot -e "splot [x=-3:3] [y=-3:3] sin(x) * cos(y)" That's really nice! I didn't know terminals could do that. I notice that w

Opt-In-Data Needs

2018-11-27 Thread Gary Johnson
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Re: Is who -b command available? Need to know when computer was started.

2018-10-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-10-16, Peder Sverdrup via cygwin wrote: > Hi, > > I am making a script and need to know when the computer was last booted. > This can be done with > > who -b command. I have installed the minimum cygwin and this command is not > available. > > Which package do I need to install in order

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-20, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:19:10 -0700 > Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2018/07/19 11:54:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > > "/etc/postinstall/inetutils-server.sh" > > *** Warning: The permissions on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] inetutils 1.9.4-1

2018-07-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-19, Takashi Yano wrote: > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * inetutils-1.9.4-1 > * inetutils-server-1.9.4-1 > * ping-1.9.4-1 I just updated my Cygwin installation (using setup-x86.exe) a few minutes ago, and Setup reported the following error:

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-11, Mark Hansen wrote: > On 7/11/2018 12:41 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, Mark Hansen! > > > >>I've just updated to the latest Cygwin 64-bit installation on my Windows 7 > >>PC. Included > >>in this update was the package for nc (nc: A simple but powerful network > >>tool) vers

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2018-07-11, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Mark Hansen! > > > I've just updated to the latest Cygwin 64-bit installation on my Windows 7 > > PC. Included > > in this update was the package for nc (nc: A simple but powerful network > > tool) version 1.107-4 > > > After downloading and insta

Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success

2017-07-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-07-12, Bryan Dunphy wrote: > I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits > for an external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the > volume’s root directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. > How do I get the script to be run repeatedly until successf

Re: How to get 'Normal' (or higher) version of (x86) vim?

2017-05-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-05-23, Frank Slootweg via cygwin wrote: > I currently have vim version 8.0.596 from the (x64) package > "vim-8.0.0596-1 - vim: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor". > > 'vi --version' says: > > "VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled May 12 2017 11:38:40) > Included patches: 1-596 >

Re: find / without traversing /proc

2017-04-27 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-04-27, bonhard wrote: > The command "find /" takes forever, if it completes at all, because of the > need to traverse the induced directory /proc. Is this directory often > needed by users? Can it be skipped by setting up "export CYGWIN=something", > or even by default, with the requirement

Re: cygwin console software

2017-02-26 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-02-27, Goodman Leung wrote: > Hi list > > Minty is go hard to copy , > > Is there any other console software for Cygwin ? Do you mean that it is hard to copy and paste text to and from mintty? I have no trouble at all using it. I don't think there is anything better--or as good--for Cy

Re: Please explain how to add to a thread in this mailing list

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-12-21, Lester Ingber wrote: > Since gmail inserts extra characters that are not recognized as text, I > am using mutt. > > mutt does not permit adding References: headers. Instead, I seem to be > OK getting > "Message-ID: <...>" > from the Raw link, and changing this to > "In-Reply-To: <.

Re: profile_d

2016-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-12-06, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/6/2016 9:49 AM, Charlie Perkins wrote: > >Hello anyone, > > > >Could someone tell me what profile_d does? > > > >There doesn't seem to be a man page, info, or any way I can find out! > > It's defined in /etc/profile, shortly before the call to 'profile_d > s

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-09-02, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear Gary, > > you are absolutely right. Vim is not the problem. > > I did two changes at the same time and indeed tried the vim -u none > but maybe did not catch the error. > > Finally what causes the error is: > > inoremap > > no my vimrc. From http://

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-09-02, Felipe Vieira wrote: > Dear all, > > I just updated my vim and some keys are now broken. > > I'm trying both versions of vim: > vim-7.4.2181-1.tar.xz 07-Aug-2016 21:13 1062348 > and > vim-7.4.1990-1.tar.xz 06-Jul-2016 20:31 > 1055584 > but bot

Re: Vim and cursor position

2016-02-14 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2016-02-14, James Darnley wrote: > To the maintainer, Yaakov, or anyone else who knows: > > Have the compilation options of Vim changed recently? Is there some > other recent change that would cause the behaviour described below? > > Vim now appears to be remembering the last position of the

Re: vim 7.4 spontaneously changes the working file

2015-08-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-08-10, grimpen wrote: > i have just done a fresh reinstall of cygwin. > > now vim is misbehaving: > for every file i open with vim, vim usually changes the 1st character of > the 1st line to "g". > more exactly, if the 1st line is empty, vim makes no change, > if the 1st line contains only

Re: 2.2.0: possible bug with Vim 7.4.764 and syntax highlight

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-08-04, Xealot wrote: > Hello! > There seems to be a possible bug with cygwin 2.2.0 in xterm terminal > mode (default) and using vim 7.4.764 with syntax highlighting enabled. > > To verify and reproduce: > echo "syntax on" >> ~/.vimrc > vim -E > > The prompt at the bottom should now show a

Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

2015-04-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-04-20, Murthy Gandikota wrote: > >> Then it looks like you have a DOUBLE-compressed file. That is, someone > >> took a .tar.gz file, and ran THAT through gzip again (which seldom does > >> anything except make a LARGER file - because the first round of > >> compression removed any redundan

Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug

2015-04-10 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-04-10, René Berber wrote: > On 4/10/2015 2:21 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2015-04-09, René Berber wrote: > > >> Why vim on Cygwin doesn't install, or use if you add one, /etc/vimrc? > > > > Executing > > $ vim --version > &g

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-10-01, Jim Garrison wrote: > On 10/1/2014 2:52 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: > > Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to > > generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file > > from a Windows app. > [snip] > >... but it does remove the trailing \n whi

Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

2014-10-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-10-01, Paul.Domaskis wrote: > Running bash in a Windows environment, I often find the need to > generate a full Windows path to a file so that I can access the file > from a Windows app. > > If I use > >cygpath -aw TheFile > /dev/clipboard > > I can paste into the Windows file-opener

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Gary Johnson
;> incorrect, as a simple test like "find /etc/passwd -print" would > >> show. > > > > Or just "find /etc/passwd". (-print has been the default for > > decades... The man page it's the default but you should proob) > > Maybe things ha

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote: > writes: > > writes: > >> I'm using the following 64-bit packages: > >> > >>cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 > >> > >> If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory > >> _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type "ls _" or >

Re: vi editing at bash command line: cc command doesn't work

2014-09-09 Thread Gary Johnson
I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Cygwin installed on a Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 system. I can confirm that using a Cygwin Terminal, cc works on the 32-bit installation but not on the 64-bit installation. There is no connection between the vi mode of the bash command line and Vim. Regard

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Gary Johnson! > > > > > I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here > > > feature from the Windows file manager "Send to" context menu, much

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-09, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gary Johnson! > > > I wrote a batch file and a shell script to implement a Run Bash Here > > feature from the Windows file manager "Send to" context menu, much > > like chere but without having to mess with the r

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-08, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > > > To clarify this request a bit: > > > > > > Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a > > > c

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-06, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > To clarify this request a bit: > > > > Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a > > command. > > The only recent package that actually worked was ru

Re: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

2014-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-05, Gerry Reno wrote: > To clarify this request a bit: > > Both run-1.2.0-1 and 1.3.1-1 are broken. Neither one properly runs a command. > The only recent package that actually worked was run-1.3.0-1. That has not been my experience. In my experience, run-1.2.0-1 works fine but 1.3.

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-02-04, mrushton wrote: > I am loving Cygwin. > > I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some > newbie questions. These are all general Unix/Linux questions, not specific to Cygwin, and are therefor not appropriate for discussion on the cygwin list. That said, I don

Re: How to disable all syntax coloring in Cygwin/bash?

2013-12-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-16, Chris Wolf wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Chris Wolf wrote: > > I just installed a recent release of Cygwin and notice that it now > > features syntax highlighting. Is there a way to totally disable this? > > All I want is be able to set the foreground/background colors

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-06, Björn Kautler wrote: > 2013/12/6 Christopher Faylor: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Bj?rn Kautler wrote: > >>Do my messages come through at all? > >>No-one answers or cares about this one. :-( > > > > Either it is this: > > 1) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM > > > > O

Re: vim not working as an editor for git

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-12-06, Adrian Hawryluk wrote: > If I use gvim as my editor, it executes gvim and returns right away, > not waiting for gvim to terminate. This appears to be another bug. I don't know about the first issue, but this issue is not a bug. By default, gvim launches into the background. To k

Re: checking in >= 256k file fatally corrupts rcs file

2013-10-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-08, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >>On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote: > >>> > >>>Checking in a text file of size >= 256k > >>>corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the content

Re: VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

2013-10-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-03, Paul King wrote: > Hello > > I have tried to get vim's vundle package to work under Cygwin64, and > it appears as though vim doesn't understand most of the package. > Vundle works under 32-bit Cygwin, but something in the way the 64-bit > version was compiled looks in the wrong plac

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.3.0-1

2013-09-30 Thread Gary Johnson
Any updates on this? Any other information we can provide to expedite a fix? I just had my PC upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 and have been reinstalling various applications including Cygwin. I'm using the 32-bit version because not all the packages I use are available for 64-bit Cygwin.

Re: pango1.0.sh exit code 1

2013-08-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-08-01, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Martin Baute wrote: > >The libpango1.0 postinstall script fails with exit code 1 > > Same here on a W7 box (cygwin32). Same workaround. > > Strangely, on XP it worked fine some time ago (probably in the 2009).. As I reported in an earlier thread ("Recent C

Re: Recent Cygwin problems

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-06-21, Gary Johnson wrote: > I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years > without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems > and my installation seems corrupted. > > 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.ex

Recent Cygwin problems

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Johnson
I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems and my installation seems corrupted. 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.exe I get this pop-up message part way through the process. Cygw

Re: vim-7.3.943-1 missing command 'let g:colors_name = "elflord"' found in vim-common-7.3.943-1

2013-05-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-05-16, Kenneth Salerno wrote: > Where: vim-7.3.943-1 > > Issue: vim-common-7.3.943-1 contains > /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/elflord.vim which utilizes the command > "let g:colors_name = "elflord", this command is not found in > /usr/bin/vim-nox from package vim-7.3.943-1 > > Fix: downgrad

Re: ln -s do not work

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-04-20, Arthur Tu wrote: > After I did this: > $ ln -s Repos/bugn/ Projects/ > > A file named `bugn` is created under Projects, > as it is said in the cygwin documentation. > > However, cygwin does recognise `bugn` as a link file, > while can't determine where it point to. > > I draged th

Re: bash-completion load times

2013-04-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-03-27, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Having bash-completion installed significantly slows down starting a new > Cygwin > Bash login shell. It's a problem I've noticed, and I've seen other users > report it on this list and elsewhere, too. I've done a bit of digging into > what the problem is,

ISC DHCPv6 Server?

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Johnson
Has anyone built the ISC DHCPv6 server on Cygwin? I downloaded the latest source, dhcp-4.2.4-P2, saw that it contained some checks for __CYGWIN__ and __CYGWIN32__ and tried "./configure" and "make" but make failed with the following. make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/dhcp-4.2.4-P2/

Re: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-10-20, Lawrence Mayer wrote: > CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard > > e.g. > > ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form) > ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\*  (4th form) > cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY > > all fail returning error message > > 'cannot stat `WINDOWS PATH\\*':

Re: Enlarging the Dos box window and font

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-09-13, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > When I give a lecture or a speech, I use to display some text to the > listeners. I create simple HTML pages, that I display on a projector. > Because I'm blind, I need to have the same text on a braille display. I > want to use a text based web browser, lynx,

Re: Strange behaviour of mutt.exe

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-09-07, Stepan Yakovenko wrote: > HI! > > To reproduce the problem, launch mutt from command line: > mutt -f cygwin.mutt.glitch.eml > > open mail and press 'v' to view attachmets. Then press 's' to save > attachment. Result of saving is different on linux and windows (see > files attached)

Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)

2012-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-08-08, marco atzeri wrote: > On 8/8/2012 11:11 AM, AngusC wrote: > > > DO NOT TOP POST ! > > >I did try the --include way but in Cygwin it didn't work for some reason. Both of these work fine for me in Cygwin (on Windows XP): grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include "*.log" . grep -nH

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.566-1

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-07-08, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: > > *** vim-7.3.566-1 > *** vim-common-7.3.566-1 > *** xxd-7.3.566-1 > *** gvim-7.3.566-1 > > Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the > de-facto Unix edito

Re: How to run cygwin on boot

2012-04-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-04-05, marco atzeri wrote: > On 4/5/2012 9:41 AM, J.V. wrote: > >I need to run a .bat file on startup that will launch a cygwin bash script. > > > >I can put the .bat file in the folder "startup" to connect some network > >drives and then I want to launch a bash script. > > > >Can this be d

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-28, Peter Rosin wrote: > Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: > > On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were > >> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used > >> str

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-27 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: > But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were > idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used > strcmp from the start. I don't know, the "original" authors seem to have gotten it right, as version 5.7 works correctly on my Fed

Re: Mintty Log Off problem

2012-02-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-18, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 2/18/2012 10:28 AM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > > I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away > > if I change my default shell to dash. Seems tcsh is involved somehow. > > It comes back when I change my default shell back to tcsh. >

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using cygwin in order to use cron under an XP machine. When I run > the command > > $ crontab -e > > I get a vi (vim?) editor, but I'm not able to use it propertly. After > pressing "insert" the keyboard doesn't work properly. For example, if I > pres

Re: Can't edit crontab

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote: > On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, Emlio! > > > >>The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is: > >>$ EDITOR=nano; > >>And if i type "EDITOR" nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e > >>I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again. You may need t

Re: Environment variable mixing when starting non-cygwin GVIM from within cygwin terminal?

2012-02-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-02-06, reckoner wrote: > Hi, > > I usually start the non-cygwin gvim.exe via the rxvt cygwin console > doing something like: > > % gvim filename.py > > the problem is that, when inside GVIM, when I do: > > :py print os.environ['PATH'] > > I see a lot of cygwin paths which messes up the

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem. Color _is_ enabled in > > the new terminal. > > > > As an experiment/demonstration, I executed this command in my home >

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-17, Jon Hughes wrote: > Gary Johnson spocom.com> writes: > > mintty -e tail -f foo & > > > > The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent > > with those I write for other terminals. > > > > HTH, > > Gary

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-01-11, Jon Hughes wrote: > What I want to do is open a new cygwin window with a tail command, so > I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in > another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax > to do essentially this: > > cygstart sh "tail -f

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-12-12, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > On 12/12/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Brown wrote: > > In my case that is a no go. That is because, as mentioned, I told the > > installer not to create the desktop shortcut or the start menu option, as I > > already had them. So, the start menu currently points to the

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/29/2011 9:29 PM, carolus wrote: > >Then maybe I just need to update my Cygwin installation, which is about a > >year old. Are you using the old default windows terminal like me, or rxvt, > >mintty, xterm, or maybe something else? > > Works for me i

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: > On 11/29/2011 5:13 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode > >hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen. > > Not sure that is the same problem. What happens if you search for > --all i

Re: Searching manpages for option codes, e.g. "--all"

2011-11-29 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: > After opening "man ls", trying to search for "--all" leads to > "Pattern not found (press RETURN)". > > Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of > search to work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, > that does not seem to work

Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

2011-08-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-08-07, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 8/7/2011 9:16 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: > >Am 30.07.2011 14:14, schrieb Andrey Repin: > >>Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> > For every shell code that I write, I'd like it to be portable both to > Cygwin > on Windows, and to Ubuntu Linux for example.

Re: vi and vim

2010-08-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-08-11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote: > >Hello, > > > >At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to > >use vi instead of vim in cygwin? > > > >I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't > >link

Re: How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-07-23, Gary Johnson wrote: > I just updated to the latest Vim 7.3 changeset on my Linux system > and after building it noticed that the conceal feature wasn't > included. I tried to enable it using > > ./configure --enable-cscope --enable-conceal >

How do you enable the conceal feature?

2010-07-23 Thread Gary Johnson
I just updated to the latest Vim 7.3 changeset on my Linux system and after building it noticed that the conceal feature wasn't included. I tried to enable it using ./configure --enable-cscope --enable-conceal but got this warning: configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-conc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-1.24-1

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-04-08, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I've uploaded a new version astyle, 1.24-1, in keeping with the > current upstream release. > > For a list of changes check out > http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle_release_notes.html. I get error 404 from this URL. The Release Notes link from the main p

Re: Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson > > When I execute screen, however, the mintty > > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49.  This shrinking > > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing > > screen. > > I've

Re: Cygwin Terminal Type

2010-03-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-17, Nick Calvert wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a border line flame worthy question as I´m acting as a proxy > for a developer. Please go easy... > > I have an elaborate, slightly dirty but fully functional system in > place whereby Windows machines are automated via a Linux Ruby > appli

Re: Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson > > When I execute screen, however, the mintty > > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49.  This shrinking > > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing > > screen. > > I've

Odd behavior of mintty with screen

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Johnson
I've been using rxvt and rlogin (through a VPN) on a Windows laptop at home to connect to a computer running Linux at work. To help with that I have a shortcut on my Desktop that contains this Target: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/rxvt --geometry =157x49+0+0 --backspacekey ^H -T lnxcomp1 -e /bi

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-03, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson: > > I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read > > mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color > > palette other than to send escape sequences. > > You're right, there isn'

Re: mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-03-03, Reid Thompson wrote: > On 3/2/2010 9:07 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > >I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read > >mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color > >palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the

mintty colors

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Johnson
I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color palette other than to send escape sequences. I could echo the escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal I use. I could wrap mintty in a shell script

Re: Missing xdvi

2010-01-22 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-01-22, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hello friends, > > I've installed all tetex-* packages, howver, I can't find xdvi. > Should I compile it from source myself? > > Thank you in advance for any hint! Searching the Cygwin Package List (http://cygwin.com/packages/) for "xdvi" results in a number

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-01-20, indrek wrote: > Hi > I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. > I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example "error". > Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. make | grep --color=always -C error HTH, Gary --

Re: can not enter password for SSH when running in another terminal (RXVT)

2009-12-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-15, Leo Lagos wrote: > Hi... I've got the following problem, that I'll describe with the > steps, so You can reproduce it... > > 1. open cygwin (normal black command prompt window) > 2. run "rxvt -e bash &" from there > 3. on the rxvt terminal, execute an ssh to any host > > Now, what

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-13, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/12/13 Marc Girod: > > I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. > > In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user > > for an interactive decision. > > I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X -

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-13, Marc Girod wrote: > Hello, > > I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. > In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user > for an interactive decision. > I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm

Re: BASH Shell - Configuration Problem?

2009-12-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-11, rgc3679 wrote: > I haven't used cygwin or bash in 5 years, but I need to write a bash script > for my ISP to test JavaMail. I can't get simple things to work, so I'm > wondering if maybe I have a bash shell config issue. I did update cygwin to > the latest. [...] > Notice how the e

Re: How to print the full Windows path inside the sed command?

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-10, Chip Panarchy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-12-09, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > >> Chip Panarchy wrote: > > > >> > Then I ran the following command from command-prompt; > >> > > >> >

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