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Christopher Faylor | 1 Aug 2010 02:03
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Re: make-3.82 available

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 04:53:56PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote:
>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2010-07/msg00010.html
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>I've downloaded and built GNU make 3.82 for Cygwin.  The packages are 
>available here:
>
>http://sites.google.com/a/rwalker.com/cygwin/make-381-DOS/make-3.82-1-src.tar.bz2
>http://sites.google.com/a/rwalker.com/cygwin/make-381-DOS/make-3.82-1.tar.bz2
>
>Info here: http://sites.google.com/a/rwalker.com/cygwin/

In case it isn't clear, this is not an official release of make for
Cygwin.  Any problems or concerns should be addressed directly to
the OP.
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Andy Koppe | 1 Aug 2010 11:42
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Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty

On 31 July 2010 16:11, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 31 July 2010 15:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
>>>> I use Mintty with the following options:
>>>> Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor:
>>>> line.
>>>>
>>>> With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great in
>>>> insert mode. However the cursor appears to be a little too thin in my
>>>> opinion (sometimes difficult to find on the screen).
>>>
>>> It's the standard Windows cursor, same as you get in any other Windows
>>> application. Try the block or underscore cursors for something more
>>> substantial.
>>
>> Indeed, the Mintty line cursor is also used by WordPad but Word uses a
>> thicker cursor (probably for the same reasons as mine).
>
> Hmm, good point, I hadn't noticed that. Same in OpenOffice Writer as well.
>
> Do you want to enter an enhancement issue at
> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues?

Turns out there's a global Windows setting for the cursor width, at
Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> Display (that's where it is
in XP anyway). Trouble is, mintty doesn't support it, but fixing that
will address the issue without having to introduce a new option, so
that's what I'll do.

Andy
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JOHNER Jean 066030 | 1 Aug 2010 16:03
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Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty

On 1 August 2010 09:43, Andy Koppe wrote:
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> Turns out there's a global Windows setting for the cursor width, at
> Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> Display (that's where it is
> in XP anyway). Trouble is, mintty doesn't support it, but fixing that
> will address the issue without having to introduce a new option, so
> that's what I'll do.

Right.
NotePad takes account of this setting but WordPad does not.

Thank you for this work. Hope you have learnt something.

Do you want me to enter an enhancement issue in
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues?

or do you consider it done?

Best regards

Jean Johner
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JOHNER Jean 066030 | 1 Aug 2010 16:16
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Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory

On 31 July 2010 15:00, Andy Koppe wrote:

> The window title is changed to the working directory as part of the
> shell prompt, i.e. the PS1 variable, which is set in /etc/profile.
> It's the initial part of it that does it:

> \[\e]0;\w\a\]

> So you could change PS1 to something more to your liking in
> ~/.bash_profile.

> Alternatively, you could mount (part of) the "D:/Documents and
> settings/User_name/My documents/foobar" path to a shorter POSIX path
> in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER. See
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table for
> details.

> You might also want to consider making it your official home
> directory, in which case it would be abbreviated to a tilde in the
> title.

> (This isn't mintty-specific of course.)

Thank you, I will study that more closely.

Btw, I read your minty man where you warn that /etc/profile puts the
folder to $HOME. Perhaps it would be useful that you also describe the
recipe at that place. It is not so easy to guess!

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Oleksandr Gavenko | 1 Aug 2010 16:18
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Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.

Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly.
But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say:

   <select> is undefined

Also I have trouble with <C-backspace>. Emacs think that
I press <undo>.

I use GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2009-07-30
with CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07.

All other keys that I use work correctly (as in Emacs NT).

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Oleksandr Gavenko | 1 Aug 2010 16:29
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Unknown option 'BackspaceSendsDEL' for mintty from emacs.README.

In Cygwin 1.7.1 installation in file

   /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README

placed tips:

   - mintty: Put BackspaceSendsDEL=1 in your .minttyrc file.

Under "man 1 mintty" present only 'BackspaceSendsBS' option.

What option correct and why I need set it?
Also please fix emacs.README if it already not fixed.

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Ken Brown | 1 Aug 2010 17:17
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Re: Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.

On 8/1/2010 10:18 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly.
> But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say:
>
>     <select>  is undefined

I can't reproduce this.  If it still happens after you update your 
Cygwin installation (see below), please give a step-by-step recipe for 
reproducing the problem.  Make sure to start emacs with 'emacs -Q'.

> Also I have trouble with<C-backspace>. Emacs think that
> I press<undo>.

I think this is a mintty issue.  I'll let Andy comment.

> I use GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2009-07-30
> with CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07.

Your Cygwin installation is out of date.  Emacs is at 23.2, and cygwin 
is at 1.7.5.

Ken
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Ken Brown | 1 Aug 2010 17:21
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Re: Unknown option 'BackspaceSendsDEL' for mintty from emacs.README.

On 8/1/2010 10:29 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> In Cygwin 1.7.1 installation in file
>
>     /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README
>
> placed tips:
>
>     - mintty: Put BackspaceSendsDEL=1 in your .minttyrc file.
>
> Under "man 1 mintty" present only 'BackspaceSendsBS' option.
>
> What option correct and why I need set it?
> Also please fix emacs.README if it already not fixed.

Your Cygwin installation is out of date.  After updating, you should 
probably start with a fresh .minttyrc (or just delete it, and set the 
mintty options you want from the mintty options menu).

Ken
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Christopher Faylor | 1 Aug 2010 21:14
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Re: elusive segfault on latest snapshots

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:40:27PM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>--- Sab 31/7/10, Christopher Faylor  ha scritto:
>
>> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:25:42AM +0000, Marco Atzeri
>> wrote:
>> >>on latest snapshots after 2010-07-07, I am picking
>> random segfault
>> >>building or configuring several programs
>> >
>> >Does this mean that 2010-07-07 does not have problems?
>
>yes, it works fine
>
>> 
>> Actually, I'd be particularly interested in knowing if
>> 2010-07-18 has
>> the problem.
>
>yes, it has.
>
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>
>It is very elusive and it does not happen all the time,
>just most of the time; every snapshot segfault in a 
>different point of the building and some time also
>the same snapshot behavior differently. 
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Ramiro Polla | 1 Aug 2010 21:23
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screen does not reattach with standard users through ssh

Hi,

I'm trying to get screen working through sshd. I have installed
screen, and openssh, and configured with ssh-host-config (and set
CYGWIN to tty).

Users with administrator privileges can successfully create, detach,
and reattach a screen session through ssh, but that is not possible
with standard users (the command to reattach screen does nothing just
like before CYGWIN was set to tty). It works with standard users
locally launching cygwin through cmd.exe though. Has anyone come
across this, or can help me debug this further?

Ramiro Polla
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