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WhyIsRxvtNotTheDefault

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Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen edited this page Feb 20, 2014 · 8 revisions

Msys comes with an Rxvt (a terminal window which is resizable, has a scrollback that you can trigger by Shift+!PageUp, and text is easily selectable and pastable) which you can start by clicking on msys-rxvt.bat in the bin/ folder. However, with Rxvt, these issues are most apparent:

  • pushing via ssh is not working right now, it seems,
  • the pager is not called correctly (it is not connected to a tty),
  • stderr does not seem to be shown,
  • when vi is called as the editor for the commit messages, it does not get any input,
  • etc.
So while Rxvt is arguably nicer than cmd, it is not recommended at this time to use it.

The good news is that you can fetch via git:// protocol, and using msys.bat -- which uses the default Windows command line window -- you can use the ssh protocol.

If you use PowerShell, you can install posh-git and enjoy tab-completion and Git status in the prompt.

You can also wrap the default command-line console in a more usable window like Console or cmder.

There's also Mintty (a fork of Putty), which is very reliable. http://code.google.com/p/mintty/

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