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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:01:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: chere doesn't work anymore with MinTTY
From: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen:
>> Accepting `-e command' additionally would make the usage comaptible to
>> xterm/rxvt and mintty could be used easier as drop-in replacement...
>
> Can't say I'm keen on doing that, because it looks =C2=A0like the start of
> a slippery slope down xterm's intimidating manpage.
> Konsole and gnome-terminal do support it though, without implementing
> any other xterm options, so I guess mintty better does as well: issue
> 69.

I'd say that emulating the options in the common subset of rxvt's
options and xterm's is probably a good idea - at least for options
that affect the behavior (like -e) instead of just the appearance
(like -rv).

~Matt

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