Re: ITP xtail 2.2 -- Extended tail -f utility

[Jari Aalto <jari dot aalto at cante dot net>]

2012-02-06 19:46 Corinna Vinschen:
| On Feb  2 17:01, Jari Aalto wrote:

wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/setup.hint \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/xtail/xtail-2.1-1.tar.bz2

| Packaging is ok, but what bugs me with this tool is the fact that
| you have to send SIGQUIT (usually Ctrl-\) to exit it.  This works
| fine in mintty, but it doesn't work in the Windows console.  Can this
| be changed so that exiting is not a major task in the Windows console?

I agree. It is now possible to exit with: C-c + confirmation:

    Exit (y/N)?

I tested in cmd.exe running dash.
Jari