Re: ANN: WinEdt 5.6

On 09.05.2008 19:04, WinEdt Team wrote:
> I am not using cygwin but I would suggest that you check if it
> can be started with some switch to suppress echo or at least
> suppress VT100 ESC sequences. For example, Windows Command
> Prompt should be started with
> 
> cmd.exe /Q
> 
> to avoid double-echo in WinEdt's Console.
> 
> How does cygwin shell perform in standard Windows Console (or
> does it start its own Window)?

It uses a standard Windows console (maybe with its own driver?). In the 
meantime, I found out that the escape sequences are supposed to set some 
fancy colors, so by changing the prompt to something simple (">"), I 
could at least improve the situation in that I don't get garbage on each 
line anymore. Every input line is still doubled (didn't find a way to 
avoid double-echo, if that's what it is), but that's something I can 
live with.

>> * Could `Copy to Clipboard' not be made to work while the application is
>> still running? Also, text can be selected, but the selection
>> immediately disappears again, so you cannot copy manually,
>> either.

...and pasting into the console (using the paste button) doesn't really 
work, either: although the pasted text appears in the console, the 
applications don't see it.

And, the context menu in the console doesn't correspond to the row of 
buttons in the form window, unlike with the other special forms.

> I knew that I am in for a lot of trouble when I decided to try
> a two way console. Alternative would be a readonly console
> output and a 1-line simple edit control for input which you'll
> find in most console-hosting GUI applications (often only one
> way output is implemented).

Yes, that's what I thought it would become when you were first talking 
about it, so I was quite surprised to realize that it was two way 
console, which I think is a bold step forward.

> I can introduce an event handler for qualified clicks. A macro
> can check which keys are down and decide what to do. 

That would be great.

Regards,
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  Robert