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 > > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.o

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Jon Hughes
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 > directory which happened to contain a text file, ls.out, in which > the word "out" appeared on a few

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 > > > > > > This is very close, but I need it to s

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-16 Thread Jon Hughes
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 > > This is very close, but I need it to start in ANSI mode (--login -i seems to do it in cygwin.b

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 10:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: Are you using Cygwin vim or a native win32 vim? Win32 console programs generally aren't happy in mintty, and you should use their Cygwin equivalents. Daniel: Thanks for the prompt reply. I just di

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 January 2012 03:07, 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 s

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 1/11/12 10:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: 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 I am us

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 1/11/12 10:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> >> 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 >> > I am using cygwin 1.7.9-1 per cyg

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: 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 I am using cygwin 1.7.9-1 per cygcheck. I tried using mintty and it looks better than the default wind

Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 1/11/12 7:07 PM, Jon Hughes wrote: > What I want to do is open a new cygwin window There's no such thing as a "cygwin window". Do you mean a mintty instance? > with a tail command, so > I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in > another window. I've found cygstart,

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

Opening new cygwin window with arguments

2012-01-11 Thread Jon Hughes
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 foo" Any help would be appreciated -- Prob