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Comment on Other Cygwin console alternatives. by SuD

SuD — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:30:18 +0000

I recently discovered Console ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ ). It’s very nice, and it support tabs.

Comment on Network traffic generator. by Raghu

Raghu — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:18:11 +0000

Thank you very much for the pointer to DITG. I am killing myself for the last few days for a good traffic generator.:)Thanks!

Comment on Upstream proxy authentication with squid by andrew

andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:37:09 +0000

Thanks

Least i now know its posible

Just got to work out how…

Comment on Learning emacs part 4: buffers, windows, and frames by bobmccormick

bobmccormick — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:01:33 +0000

Jim, regarding your question about overlapping windows. I definitely understand where you’re coming from in terms of difficulty getting used to the way Emacs handles window management (or I guess I should say, buffer management in Emacs parlance). It took me a while to get use to as well, but in the end I realized I’d been fighting it needlessly and that the Emacs way really isn’t that bad.

IMHO, the key to getting use to it is to *ignore* emacs frames (seperate OS level windows). Instead, I maximize my Emacs frame to full screen. Then, while working I either use emacs “windows” (the non-overlapping “splits” emacs uses for internal windowing), or I just switch buffers using C-b (control-b).

What I eventually realized is that this way of working is not that different from how, in practice, I’d usually work in a Windows or Gnome application. Although in theory I could use overlapping windows in these applications, in practice if I was doing anything important, I’d maximize all my major work windows to full screen anyway.

One last thing to mention. Emacs is an odd program and is a little difficult to learn. For myself, I think it’s been worth learning for the power and portability of Emacs, but your mileage may vary. If you’d prefer a more conventional editor, there are a lot of good ones out there for Linux (Eclipse and Netbeans come to mind, but I’m certain there are a lot more).

Comment on Learning emacs part 4: buffers, windows, and frames by Jim Hughen

Jim Hughen — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:03:01 +0000

Hi Bob,
I am an old w32 user, who wants to acquire Linux skills (in particular do Linux kernel device driver development). I am presently studying Linux aggressively. One of the first requirements is a good text editor, that is well mastered. I am taking the Emacs tutorial and learning it. You comments about buffers, windows, and frames is interesting.

The matter of overlapping windows seems to be important. Emacs has a very rich history, and installed and ran well for my test. I am an old Multi-Edit user, and overlapping windows (for different file buffers) is very natural to me. We tend to have paradigms such that we want certain things to not change. This is NOT my intention.

Sometimes I may have 20 (or more) open overlapping windows (many of the files for a project). This working environment is very productive. Using Emacs frames, I can not see how to emulate this important productivity.

Can you comment about overlapping windows not being part of Emacs? There may be another Linux editor that uses overlapping windows (ok), but Emacs seems to be the most popular, so I would like to master and use it.

thanks, …Jim Hughen

Comment on Other Cygwin console alternatives. by Silversleeves

Silversleeves — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:13:58 +0000

I’ve used, so far since installing Cygwin for the second time, Poderosa, MinTTy, and Terminator. Poderosa, to my way of thinking, recalls the Mozilla Mail window with its split screens — they’re panes, not tabs (get it right, once!). Terminator’s good except sometimes it chews on my bash and rxvt configurations (don’t ask me how, but it certainly seems to be the case). MinTTy consistently launches with a window that’s big enough for my near-sighted older relations to appreciate, but I do like the fact that the prefs are GUI and for the most part idiot-proof. If MinTTY had panes all the others, and particularly the trialware/payware ones, could just shelve it. So you get a sense of what I’m expecting out of PuttyCYG.

Have a day and a half, folks.

BZT

Comment on Cut and paste with Rxvt by SilversleevesX

SilversleevesX — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:41:46 +0000

The line in my .inputrc that handles pasting from clipboard is

“\C-v”: paste-from-clipboard

I think I found it here

http://infrablue.tripod.com/cygwin.html
(more than halfway down-page, after the short paragraph that starts “Finally, to your .inputrc…”)

As for copying, ctrl-c seems to work, though in Cygwin’s rxvt — which is the one I use — it also generates the conventional Unix/Linux ‘break’ line and gives me my standard prompt. Nevertheless, I’ve seldom had problems pasting whatever was copied from a term window using ctrl-c. I suppose if you were to add it to .inputrc, you’d use the same syntax as I found on the Tripod page, eg: “\C-c” copy from clipboard (but in so doing you’d lose the break/cancel effect that’s too often necessary to retain, imo).

Hope this was helpful.

BZT

Comment on New blog home, new blog name, new blog software by sotsdiock

sotsdiock — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:49:33 +0000

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Comment on Cut and paste with Rxvt by Al Leitch

Al Leitch — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:35:50 +0000

This slight modification of the PERL module author’s example allows for a neat backticking. See some cool bash one-liner? Copy it and type: `clipbd`

If you’re ambitious, try extending it so you can send STDIN to the clipboard!

$ cat /bin/clipbd
#! /bin/perl
use Win32::Clipboard;
$CLIP = Win32::Clipboard();
print $CLIP->Get();

Comment on Other Cygwin console alternatives. by Fabien Meghazi

Fabien Meghazi — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:38:10 +0000

I use screen but I want tabs anyway.

When I use a terminal (urxvt under linux) I use many tabs ( never two urxvt windows ) and when I’m on a remote host, I use screen.

Does someone knows if it’s possible to use rxvt’s tabbed module in cygwin ?