Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
by ZenoArrow on Sunday November 09, 2014 @11:03AM
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Wouldn't it be better just to use ConEmu and mintty? I looked at urxvt but the ConEmu+mintty combo had all the features I wanted and was more up-to-date than urxvt.
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Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
by a3n on Sunday November 09, 2014 @12:00PM
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mintty doesn't have enough colors for my eyes.
I use conemu for my windows command shell. I have tried it to run a cygwin bash shell, but I recall there being some annoyances, don't remember what anymore.
But fundamentally, no, it wouldn't be better to run ConEmu and mintty, because urxvt is exactly what I like. :)
Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
by ZenoArrow on Sunday November 09, 2014 @11:26PM
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Fair enough if urxvt is exactly what you like. Not sure what you meant by the colour comment though, both urxvt and mintty support 256 colours... http://superuser.com/questions/736873/enable-256-colors-for-...
Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
by a3n on Monday November 10, 2014 @06:54PM
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I tried the above for colors in mintty, nice, thanks.
As for running mintty in conemu, it's still not quite right. If I figure it out, this will be what I recommend to people.
But for me, I like having urxvt the same at home on linux and at work in cygwin. I use urxvt's keyboard management of its tabs a lot.