Since I didn’t know until someone told me…
cygwin includes a standalone rxvt port. Standalone meaning it
doesn’t need an X server, but runs happily on your windows desktop.
Much nicer than the MSDOS terminal that the cygwin shell usually runs
in.
martin
martindemello@yahoo.com (Martin DeMello) wrote in message news:42f186e.0211020235.73dfcf72@posting.google.com…
Since I didn’t know until someone told me…
cygwin includes a standalone rxvt port. Standalone meaning it
doesn’t need an X server, but runs happily on your windows desktop.
Much nicer than the MSDOS terminal that the cygwin shell usually runs
in.martin
FYI, for the time being I’ve given up using rxvt to invoke irb or the
Ruby debugger. Trying to correct inevitable typos within irb or debug
has led to spurious characters being passed to the eval loop causing
it 1) at best to complain or 2) unfortunately simply blast out of
the program back to the command line. #2 has happened often to me and
is pretty infuriating stuff when one’s deeply immersed in a code
exploration.
I’m sure there’s some fix but for the time being I just use the DOS
window which behaves nicely with irb and debug. (This is in
old-fashioned win98se.)
I wonder if you’ll experience these joys of rxvt+(irb/debug). 
Walt
walrus06437@yahoo.com (Walt Rarus) wrote in message news:58a8e3b7.0211020924.1302b89@posting.google.com…
FYI, for the time being I’ve given up using rxvt to invoke irb or the
Ruby debugger. Trying to correct inevitable typos within irb or debug
has led to spurious characters being passed to the eval loop causing
it 1) at best to complain or 2) unfortunately simply blast out of
the program back to the command line. #2 has happened often to me and
is pretty infuriating stuff when one’s deeply immersed in a code
exploration.I wonder if you’ll experience these joys of rxvt+(irb/debug).
I’m afraid so :-/ And for some reason FXirb never worked for me, so
I’m stuck running IRB sessions in a cmd.exe window. But for everything
else rxvt works fine, and having a scrollback buffer and cut-and-paste
makes up for a lot :).
martin