some rxvt patches

2007-09-23 Thread Robinson, Mark
howdy y'all I have scratched an itch w.r.t. rxvt which may be of interest to denizens of this list. Specifically: 1) a new parameter "-cd directory" which starts rxvt in the given directory. On windoze this allows you to set up a context menu item in explorer (like chere) that: (a) does away w

stdin broken for windows console app under rxvt

2006-03-12 Thread Robinson, Mark
Greetings A simple console app compiled with MingW (-mno-cygwin) (or VC++) cannot read from stdin when executed in an rxvt or xterm terminal: #include main() { int c; fputc(isatty(stdin), stdout); while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c, stdout); } Furthermore, isatty(stdin) returns 0.

RE: bash prompt problem - some more observations

2005-12-08 Thread Robinson, Mark
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RE: bash prompt problem - some more observations

2005-08-23 Thread Robinson, Mark
iency. Vignette is the efficiency expert. Visit http://www.vignette.com to learn more. > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:51 AM > To: Eric Blake > Cc: Robinson, Mark; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re

bash prompt problem - some more observations

2005-08-22 Thread Robinson, Mark
g'day I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem. It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar info in my prompt, e.g. % PS1='\[\e]0;\u\a\]% ' % echo $BASH $BASH $BASH_COMMAND $BASH_SUBSHELL $BASH_ARGC $BASH_LINENO$BASH_V