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Re: fhandler_console.c refresh?


On Jan 12 13:27, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Joseph Allen wrote:
> >I'm thinking of modifying fhandler_console.c, to make the mouse
> >support, clipboard support and perhaps some other things a lot more
> >like xterm.  Possibly this is optional for backwards compatibility:
> >maybe there's a CYGWIN environment variable option for it.  The idea is
> >to make UNIX programs (particularly, my text editor JOE, but many other
> >programs such as 'mc') work fully in CMD console windows.  Basically,
> >I'd much prefer to do this than make a win32 port of JOE.  What do
> >think?  I'm sure that this has been a topic of discussion in the past,
> >so I'm wondering how receptive people are to changes to the terminal
> >emulator's behavior.
> 
> I'm very willing to explore the idea of making the handling of the
> console more like xterm.  If we can't do it in a backwards comtemptible
> fashion maybe we could just detect when TERM=xterm and "do the right
> thing".
> 
> Two things to consider before you start:
> 
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> delays in reviewing or adopting your patch.
> 
> Otherwise, I think this is a good idea and encourage you to submit patches
> to make this so.

This sounds all good and right.  That reminds me that I'm always missing
that the console window doesn't handle changing the window size gracefully.
Somehow my applications never get a SIGWINCH.  Is that also something
you'd like to add?  *hint, hint* ;)


Corinna

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