Re: [Mingw-users] mShell: mSys spawning system

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>:

> Julien Lecomte wrote, quoting me:
>>> Chris Sutcliffe wrote, quoting Greg Chicares:
>>> [concerning design goals for Julien Lecomte's mShell project]
>>>>> It would be nice if this program could wrap different shells.
>>>>> I use MSYS bash for './configure && make', zsh for everyday
>>>>> work, and ash to make sure scripts are reasonably portable.
>>>
>>> Yeah.  Just like in any terminal session on *nix, it should be
>>> capable of running any shell -- even cmd.exe, for masochists :)
>>
>> Yes, I plan to support many shells, but until you mentionned it,
>> I wasn't sick minded enough to think about supporting cmd.exe !
>
> Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you should go out of your way to
> support it;  simply that, if you've got the term infrastructure
> right, then it should "Just Work"(TM).
>

It even works in MSYS RXVT.  Try it out ``start rxvt -e /path/to/cmd.exe''.


Earnie Boyd

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