From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:08:58 GMT Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Message-ID: <46B328EA.4030309@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.08.2007 14:37: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: >> The changes that I've made: >> * removed .git in /git directory to save space >> * installed gdb >> * applied my Vista fix >> * made self-extracting .rar archive > > * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window > Sneaky. > Can you defend the choice? > FWIW here are my arguments for rxvt: > > - it behaves the same on all Windows versions > - it has a scroll back (which you have to activate on cmd first) > - it is resizable > - it has sane copy&paste behaviour (which you have to activate on > cmd first, and then still have to hit the Return key after > having selected some text) Normally, people would probably like to stay in their current environment/window. Let's say you're doing something in a cmd windows, then you want to go and compile git. If you run msys.bat, it will kill your current window, and show a rxvt window instead. That's kinda not nice really. If you enable the QuickEdit in the 'CMD' window, you mark with mouse, the right-click to copy, then right-click again to paste. No need to move your hand and hit Enter/Return. (Many people don't know about the right-click to copy, but it's a much better work-flow) You can do all the changes (like changing the scrollback size and edit mode) once, then store it, never to change it again. -- .marius