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

[petar marinov]

Tzvetan Mikov wrote:

> OK, here is another more trouble one for you - WW doesn't work under rxvt
> either. rxvt is a standard part of Cygwin (if you haven't used it, it is a
> replacement of Xterm, working both with X and Win32), so I feel that WW not
> working with it is a sign of a problem in WW. I also feel that if we fix WW to
> work under rxvt, it will have a much higher chance of working with "screens".
>
> (MC runs fine under rxvt).

This is evidence enough that something in the way I call ncurses is not 
right. I know of one lingering problem and I think now is the moment to 
fix it. I will also add F8 to mark blocks, this way we will have usable 
package.

> I wonder whether for the Unix crowd this will appear as consistency or as
> anoyance. Ctrl-Z suspens most applications pretty consistenly. May be tha answer
> is that everything should be remappable ?

The Unix crowd uses vi or emacs, both are entrenched and will not switch 
to anything different. It is most important to bring comfort to us and 
people like us who wish an editor that works on all the platforms with 
the same keybindings.

> I don't think there is a big mistery about how screens works. I imagine it
> redirects the standard input and output of applications and renders it either to
> the screen or to a memory buffer.

There is quite a bit of information on the web site of "screen". I 
learned interesting stuff about terminals. There is even a mailing list. 
After my work to fix it for rxvt I will resort to it for support if it 
still doesn't work under "screen".

-petar