Re: MinTTY

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > It accesses the console's screen contents through Win32's
> > GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() and displays it in its own window while
> > hiding the actual console.  I can't see a way to combine this sort of
> > approach with ptys.
>
> If you have a captured interface then a windows console could be treated
> like a pty.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you're getting at. Isn't this 
what the cygwin terminal is doing already? I see a WriteConsoleOutput 
call in fhandler_console.cc, which manipulates the console screen 
content directly.

> The fact that windows apps don't like cygwin ptys is why we never made
> rxvt the standard interface.  What would be nice is to give the user
> some easy way to decide which they want.  We would, of course, still get
> people complaining about whichever choice they made, though.

Agreed. :)


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