winpty injection

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Corinna,

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Apr  4 19:07, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 
> > * As some people may object such a magic (and it might in fact raise
> > unexpected problems), it could also be made dependent on a setting in the
> > CYGWIN environment variable.
> 
> Nah.  If it improves the situation, nobody will complain.  However, it
> may slow down calling native Windows apps considerably when used a lot
> from scripts.

We suggest `winpty` quite a bit in Git for Windows' bug tracker. And it is
not without problems... for example, when calling Maven in MinTTY via
`winpty mvn`, the `TERM` variable is still set as appropriate for MinTTY,
and consequently, the color codes of Maven's output show up as ugly
special characters...

Ciao,
Dscho