MinTTY
Andy Koppe
andy.koppe@gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 22:54:00 GMT 2009
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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