wsltty

Update to mintty 2.7.5; highlights:

• Terminal

  • Fixed Wraparound and Backspace compliance with xterm and terminfo.
  • Changed Reverse Wraparound default to false (change with option OldWrapModes).

• Search (in scrollback buffer)

  • Matching is now case-insensitive and supports non-BMP characters.
  • Quick skip to previous/next prompt (Shift+cursor-left/right) if marked with scroll markers.

• Menu and hotkey functions

  • Extended context menu (Ctrl+right-click) with additional functions.
  • Logging can be toggled (from extended context menu).
  • Optional character information display.
  • Hotkeys to change transparency (Ctrl+Shift+T+cursor-keys), cursor, scrollbar.

• Configuration

  • Checking availability of mintty version update in Options dialog (#20).

• Updated to mintty 2.7.4:
  • Tweaked and polished localization details.
  • Extended WSL link conversion (for link-click and link pasting) to non-/mnt paths (#19).

• Updated to mintty 2.7.3:
  • Finished localization support.
  • Non-BMP display support.

• Update to mintty 2.7.1 should fix file opening on link-clicking.

• Updated mintty -> 2.7.0.
• Updated wslbridge -> 0.2.1 (#14).
• Revised set of shortcuts and command script installed (#3, #13).
• Not installing Explorer menu context items by default.
• Items in new Start Menu subfolder to install/uninstall context menu.
• Describing locations of mintty configuration file (#9) on project page.
• Using new mintty option --wsl to adapt file/folder drag-and-drop pasting (#8).

• Updated mintty 2.6.2.
• Updated wslbridge 0.2.0.
• Added Configuration instructions.
• Use new mintty option --dir, simplifying registry entry for context menu and dropping the need for dash.exe.
• Working in context menu of non-ASCII folder names (thanks to option --dir).

• Enforcing UTF-8 character set (in case config file says something else) to be consistent with WSL.
• From shortcuts, starting in Windows profile directory (%USERPROFILE%).
• Updated mintty.
• Including wsl script for manual invocation.
• Fixed start directory for context menu on folder name.
• Including uninstall script for manual removal of Windows integration.

• Restored actual installation of software (had been skipped by a test statement)

• Creating Windows Explorer context menu entries
• Tweaked build process
• Fixed config file storage (#1)

Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL.
Installer, using wslbridge 0.1.0 and current versions of mintty and cygwin.