Re: [ww-tedit-dev] WW under Cygwin

[petar marinov]

Tzvetan Mikov wrote:
> The native Win32 application is no good under Cygwin, since it doesn't like to
> run under tool like "screen", doesn't like to be suspended, etc.
> So, I compiled WW under Cygwin and it actually compiles and runs!

WW compiles and works compiled for Cygwin. "screens" is not part of the 
cygwin distribution. Maybe it is not that standard, I'm speculating, of 
course. Maybe WW doesn't work under "screens" because it is incompatible 
with the process management keys -- ctrl+z, ctrl+d. I think WW can be 
fixed provided we find out how "screens" actually works.

> The first thing to notice is that it can't be suspended with "Ctrl-Z" and can't
> be aborted with "Ctrl-D". I think that those are both veru useful features. Do
> they work in a  Unix environment ?

I think that we should preserve the keybinding consistencies across 
platforms by all means. Ctrl+z is undo and ctrl+shift+z is redo, 
furthermore ctrl+c is not cancel but is copy, etc. I think of adding 
Edit|Suspend command for example to provide the missing functionality. I 
will appreciate some help if discovering how this should work (maybe it 
is a signal, but whatever else you know would be helpful).

> Another big problem is: Alt-X causes it to fall into an endless loop. BTW, vven
> then I was able to switch to another screen and kill it, which proves that the
> Cygwin compilation was already useful.

Again, this falls in the groups of problems which I can fix provided 
some help from you about finding how "screens" works.

-petar