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Re: Starting mintty via run.exe
- From: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
- To: "moss at cs dot umass dot edu" <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:39:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe
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- Reply-to: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
Eliot,
I'm sorry for double posting. I subscribed this morning, sent back the confirmation email, posted my question and...didn't hear anything. I never got my original question from the list nor your reply. Not in my inbox nor in my spam folder. I figured that my question must have somehow been discarded because I wasn't registered on the list yet.
After an hour or two, I tried resubscribing to the list (I was already subscribed) and then reposted my question. I did later see an announcement from Corinna, a post from Ken Brown about emacs and ispell, an announcement from Jon Turney, a post from Christian Franke about exec and PATH, and finally another emacs post from Ken Brown.
I will check the list archives for your reply, since I still don't know what it is. Thanks in advance for your reply.
-- John
----- Original Message -----
> From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: jrw32982@yahoo.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe
>
> On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty
> indirectly by running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can
> start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to
> wrap the invocation in the proper environment and arguments.
>>
>> I'm encountering two problems using run.exe:
>>
>> 1) run.exe doesn't seem to be able to run a hashbang script. My script
> starts with #!/usr/bin/perl and runs just fine from a cygwin bash command line,
> starting a new mintty terminal as expected. But calling it from run.exe fails.
> Clicking on the shortcut flashes some kind of terminal window on the screen,
> which appears to have no content (but it is hard to tell, since it flashes so
> quickly) and then the terminal window immediately closes. In this case, my
> shortcut target is: d:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /path/to/hashbang/script.
>>
>> 2) When I change my shortcut target to: d:\cygwin\run.exe perl
> /path/to/hashbang/script, then it runs the script and starts a mintty terminal
> session, but I still get the flashing terminal window before the eventual mintty
> starts, which I don't want. I thought the purpose of run.exe was to hide
> such a terminal window? There must be something I'm not understanding about
> how run.exe works or its purpose.
>>
>>
>> Finally, is there any way I can debug what's going on without
> rebuilding run.exe? For example, can I prevent the flashing window from
> flashing so quickly (in case there's a message displayed there).
>
> You posted this same question this morning ...
>
> And I answered it about 20 minutes later.
>
> Why are you posting again? You risk annoying the
> list subscribers ...
>
> Regards -- Eliot Moss
>
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