Re: fhandler_console.c refresh?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 12 14:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:23:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Jan 12 13:27, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Joseph Allen wrote:
>> >> >I'm thinking of modifying fhandler_console.c, to make the mouse
>> >> >support, clipboard support and perhaps some other things a lot more
>> >> >like xterm.  Possibly this is optional for backwards compatibility:
>> >> >maybe there's a CYGWIN environment variable option for it.  The idea is
>> >> >to make UNIX programs (particularly, my text editor JOE, but many other
>> >> >programs such as 'mc') work fully in CMD console windows.  Basically,
>> >> >I'd much prefer to do this than make a win32 port of JOE.  What do
>> >> >think?  I'm sure that this has been a topic of discussion in the past,
>> >> >so I'm wondering how receptive people are to changes to the terminal
>> >> >emulator's behavior.
>> >> 
>> >> I'm very willing to explore the idea of making the handling of the
>> >> console more like xterm.  If we can't do it in a backwards comtemptible
>> >> fashion maybe we could just detect when TERM=xterm and "do the right
>> >> thing".
>> >> 
>> >> Two things to consider before you start:
>> >> 
>> >> 1) Please just send regular text email to this mailing list.  This one
>> >> slipped by but you won't be able to send any more html mail here.
>> >> 
>> >> 2) Please consider getting the ball rolling on submitting an assignmemt
>> >> from http://cygwin.com/assign.txt to Red Hat so that there will be no
>> >> delays in reviewing or adopting your patch.
>> >> 
>> >> Otherwise, I think this is a good idea and encourage you to submit patches
>> >> to make this so.
>> >
>> >This sounds all good and right.  That reminds me that I'm always missing
>> >that the console window doesn't handle changing the window size gracefully.
>> >Somehow my applications never get a SIGWINCH.  Is that also something
>> >you'd like to add?  *hint, hint* ;)
>> 
>> There is SIGWINCH handling in the console already.  If it isn't working,
>> that's a bug.  However, IIRC, it isn't possible to emulate this 100%
>> perfectly.
>
>Too bad.  I'm missing this usually when running vim or gdb in a console
>window.

How about making it work more like the linux console with its mouse
support?

cgf