From: Erwin W. <wat...@xs...> - 2012-09-07 22:57:16
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Keith Marshall schreef, Op 7-9-2012 23:47: > On 06/09/12 10:28, waterlan wrote: >> Maximus schreef op 2012-09-06 07:39: >>> ConEmu is free, opensource, and may be compiled with mingw (gcc). Are you >>> interested in it? > We might be, subject to the following conditions: > > 1) It would need to be packaged in mingw-get friendly tarballs. > 2) Release specific source tarballs need to be made available. > 3) The source should build OOTB, under MSYS, with MinGW tools. > 4) Default configuration should immediately invoke MSYS shell. > > Would you be willing to contribute packages on such a basis? > >> I did not hear of ConEmu before. I tried it (stable version), > I tried both the stable, and the latest development versions. > >> and my first impression is very good. > My first impression was disappointing. Yes, it *looks* nice when > running cmd.exe, but I had trouble getting MSYS sh.exe to start in a > virtual WinXP 32-bit session, under VirtualBox on my LinuxMint 64-bit > Debian Edition host; it simply aborted instantly, with no diagnostics > whatsoever, when trying to start it from a cmd.exe shell. Trying to > start it as the primary shell, in a new tab, yielded: > > ConEmuC: Root process was alive less than 10 sec, ExitCode=128. > Press Enter or Esc to close console... > > and other than going away completely, on pressing either enter or esc, > that tab was dead; (I couldn't even copy that message to paste it here; > I had to transcribe it manually). > > Persevering, I discovered that I could start it from a cmd.exe session, > if that session itself was started with the ConEmuHk option disabled. > However, I still can't start it as the primary shell in a new tab, with > > C:\MinGW\MSYS\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login -i > > as the specified tab command line; that still yields the same failure > condition/message. (This same command works fine, when specified as the > command to start a new Console2 tab). > > I can start MSYS shell at new tab initiation, (with ConEmuHk disabled), > if I specify the command as > > %ComSpec% /c C:\MinGW\MSYS\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login -i > > but it seems wrong that I should need this indirect invocation. > >> Even east-Asian Unicode characters display pretty well, which was not >> working in the latest Console2 versions anymore. > I can't comment on that, since Asian languages are meaningless to me; > for the Western European languages which can actually understand, I find > that Console2 works well for me; in spite of its lack of freeness, I > won't be ditching it just yet. > After using it some more I also experienced several crashes. Mainly with the 64 bit version (stable and latest) on Windows 7. For instance when you type an unknown option. I tried "conemu64 -h" to get some help, and got similar results as "Root process was alive less than 10 sec...". Conemu64 /? worked fine. And the 64 bit version also hangs when I press the [X] in the upper right corner to close conemu. When I run the 32 bit version on 32 bit Vista it seems more stable. Still I think that Conemu has the potential to become very good. Maximus just needs to iron out some bugs, and I think he is willing to. When MSYS2 arrives, which will support Unicode, ConEmu could be the ideal console. regards, -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ |