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Subject: Some questions about mintty
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My installed packages:

$ cygcheck -c cygwin mintty
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
cygwin               1.7.0-50       OK
mintty               0.4.1-1        OK

1. There is no description of the '-e' switch in mintty's manual page.
    Is it an "execute-this-command" option?  Or, should the user be
    aware that it is specific to "execute this shell"?

2. There is a '-p / --position' option described in the manual page.
    Is there a corresponding option for the ~/.minttyrc initialization
    file?  (If so, I could not find a description of it in the manual
    page for mintty or /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mintty-0.4.1.README.)

3. When the color of the cursor is changed to a block, the text
    can be read through the block, but it appears that the text is
    always white.  Can the cursor's (reverse) text color be changed?
    If a light color is chosen for the cursor block, then the white
    text within the block is difficult to read.  The behavior of xterm
    in X is that the cursor text is inverted, that is, it is dark if the
    cursor block is light, and light if the cursor block is dark.

4. Is is possible to view italic fonts (in italicized form) in mintty?
    I selected  Italic and Bold Italic entries from the 'Font Style'
    list, but could not get mintty to accept/acknowledge those
    selections.

Thanks to the author(s) of mintty for providing it.


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