Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.08.2007 14:37: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > > The changes that I've made: > > > * removed .git in /git directory to save space > > > * installed gdb > > > * applied my Vista fix > > > * made self-extracting .rar archive > > > > * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window > > Sneaky. > > Can you defend the choice? > > FWIW here are my arguments for rxvt: > > > > - it behaves the same on all Windows versions > > - it has a scroll back (which you have to activate on cmd first) > > - it is resizable > > - it has sane copy&paste behaviour (which you have to activate on > > cmd first, and then still have to hit the Return key after having > > selected some text) > > Normally, people would probably like to stay in their current > environment/window. Let's say you're doing something in a cmd windows, then > you want to go and compile git. If you run msys.bat, it will kill your current > window, and show a rxvt window instead. That's kinda not nice really. > > If you enable the QuickEdit in the 'CMD' window, you mark with mouse, the > right-click to copy, then right-click again to paste. No need to move your > hand and hit Enter/Return. (Many people don't know about the right-click to > copy, but it's a much better work-flow) > > You can do all the changes (like changing the scrollback size and edit mode) > once, then store it, never to change it again. Thanks for that good point (staying in your window). Okay, tell you what: I'll let msys.bat start a cmd, and msys-rxvt.bat start an rxvt. Deal? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
