There is much more to C
View more presentations from Juraj Michálek
- FI MUNI – Brno – Programovanie v C++
- Format: PDF, SlideShare
23. November 2011
Mintty – resizable terminal for Windows
Update 4.11. 2012: Mintty/Cygwin Termina; has also support for transparency.
Update 31.12. 2011: new version of Mintty (see discussion).
Cygwin is great tool for Windows.
E.g. You can create shell script to access windows share via //computer/share_name. This saves a lot of time when you’re domain admin and you need to maintain many computers.
The only BIG drawback of Cygwin for Windows was terminal window. When you work on Mac or Linux you can resize terminal window as you need. Terminal (CMD) for Windows sucks. In default installation you can resize just in one direction. The other option would be to mix Cygwin with PowerShell, but then many things are not working at all.
Good news! Great news! There is new terminal window in Cygwin 1.7.x. It’s application mintty.
Installer will create link to this app with name Cygwin Terminal. It will launch mintty process and you can resize window without problem.
It works fantastic! After so many yeaars it is now possible to use full power of Windows and Linux together in one bundle. (Yes, I know about other terminals like rxvt or X-based stuff, but it required always some extra steps).
Some computers were complaining that /Cygwin-Terminal.ico was not found and I was not able to launch terminal. Solution was easy. Right click on launcher icon and remove icon parameters from Target. The result target command should look like: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe
Hooray! BIG thank you goes to authors of mintty for Windows.
Follow Mintty T.
20. November 2011
Unexpected token ILLEGAL in jQuery.i18n.properties
jQuery.i18n.properties is useful library based on jQuery. You can use it to load .properties files with localization to web application.
I made upgrade of jQuery in my application from version 1.6.2 and application failed with error:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
I spent some time debugging jQuery and i18n and I found out that one of .properties file contains weird property with name:
1_guide=1 guide
Problem was in numeric prefix. Solution is quite easy: fix property.
one_guide=1 guide
This problem occurs when you upgrade jQuery to 1.6.3 and higher.
18. November 2011
24.11. 2011 – AUG Slovakia – Bratislava – Invitation
Feel free to join this meeting.
14. November 2011
How to compare 2 or 3 directories on Windows
Sometimes you need to find out what is the difference between two or three directories.
This is quite easy task when you’re Linux user. You just start Kdiff3 and it’s done.
Good news! This incredibly worthy tool is available also for Windows.
Just download installer. Install application. Select two or three directories, invoke context menu by right click in file explorer and select KDiff3 – Compare.
🙂
