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authorDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2002-11-18 00:25:14 +0000
committerDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2002-11-18 00:25:14 +0000
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new entry: "Is there a better alternative to the standard console window?" (yes, rxvt)
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@@ -656,6 +656,18 @@ For a concise description of the current situation with XEmacs, see
this message from the Cygwin mailing list:
@file{http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html}.
+@subsection Is there a better alternative to the standard console window?
+
+Yes! Use rxvt instead. It's an optional package in Cygwin Setup.
+You can use it with or without X11. You can resize it easily by
+dragging an edge or corner. Copy and paste is easy with the left and
+middle mouse buttons, respectively. It will honor settings in your
+~/.Xdefaults file, even without X.
+
+Don't invoke as simply ``rxvt'' because that will run /bin/sh (really
+ash) which is not a good interactive shell. For details see
+@code{/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README}.
+
@subsection info error "dir: No such file or directory"
Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the /usr/info