mintty/utils

Mintty is the Cygwin Terminal, as well as the terminal emulator for MSYS (Msys2, old MSYS).

Overview

For an introduction, features overview, and screenshots, see the Mintty homepage.

For detailed hints and specific issues, see the Wiki.

For comprehensive general documentation, see the manual page.

Bugs and Enhancements

Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the issue tracker.

Bugs that were reported to the previous repository at Google code before June, 2015, have been migrated here.

• Mind! Before reporting an issue about character interaction with an application, please check the issue also with at least one other terminal (xterm, urxvt), and maybe the Cygwin Console. It may also be useful to get a proper understanding of the rôle of a terminal as explained e.g. in difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'.

Contribution

If you consider to suggest a patch or contribute to mintty otherwise, discuss your proposal in an issue first, or on the Cygwin mailing list, or with the maintainer.

• Repository policy: No unsolicited pull requests!

utils's Issues

how to know that I use mintty programmatically ?

I have read in the wiki that there is a shell script that can detect if I am in mintty (or cygwin or msys2).

But I would like to know if it is possible to detect if i'm in mintty programmatically.

More precisely, i would like to know if I use cmd, or mintty (or any of its variants).

xterm-info bash function script

xterm-info.bash.txt suffix .txt for xterm-info bash function script because of GH limitations; CSI escape sequence in third column generates reply, if any, in fourth and last column, listed with cat -A, interpreted in second column with values or codes, or display units followed by x column position or size followed by y row:

xterm-info - type, display screen, xterm window, and text position and size info
	type features   VT420wpSeNThcrl	^[[c            ^[[?64;1;2;4;6;9;15;21;22;28;29c$
	type version    mintty v3.5.1-0	^[[>c           ^[[>77;30501;0c$
	type attributes			^[[=c		$
	window position	3 px 210+120	^[[13t		^[[3;210;120t$
	window size     4 px 875x881    ^[[14;2t        ^[[4;881;875t$
	text position   3 px 219+152    ^[[13;2t        ^[[3;219;152t$
	text size	4 px 840x840	^[[14t		^[[4;840;840t$
	text chars	8 ch 120x60	^[[18t		^[[8;60;120t$
	char size	6 px 7x14	^[[16t		^[[6;14;7t$
	screen chars    9 ch 274x77     ^[[19t          ^[[9;77;274t$
	screen size	5 px 1920x1080	^[[15t		^[[5;1080;1920t$
	window status	1 open		^[[11t		^[[1t$