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rxvt-unicode with its Perl API [1] and rather amazing list of Perl extensions [2] on Linux OSes, puttycyg on Cygwin. (I recommend puttycyg if you've been using rxvt on Cygwin. Being able to type Unicode characters is an amazingly exhilarating experience, especially if you're lonely.)

[1]: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/urx...

[2]: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

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I'm giving puttycyg a whirl. It uses different key codes than xterm - xterm does not default to VT220 keyboard, but puttycyg does. And both of these are different to rxvt. This primarily affects readline, and thus the bash shell.

For example, xterm sends '\e[H' for Home by default, while puttycyg (and xterm in VT220 mode) sends '\e[1~' and rxvt sends '\e[7~'.

I can configure some overrides in .inputrc, but sooner or later these start to conflict with one another if I want to be able to switch at will. Seems easier to stick to rxvt, and know that my preferences in ~/.Xdefaults also apply on non-Windows boxes.

The following PuTTY / PuTTYcyg setting may interest you:

Terminal -> Keyboard -> Change the sequences sent by -> The Home and End keys -> "rxvt"

rxvt-unicode also has some of the best (most accurate, most complete) terminal emulation out there, second only to xterm. Daemon mode is also a neat trick if you're running on a limited-memory system.

I love the daemon (aka "client/server") operation of rxvt-unicode, and the fact that with all its capabilities it's still smaller than xterm.

I've used the mode and I really liked it, except when it starts to behave buggy needing to kill the server loosing all the windows.

I prefer to name it psycho mode.

I second rxvt-unicode. Very configurable, and works fine with a tiling window manager.

I don't have that problem. Perhaps there's something glitchy about the way rxvt-unicode works with your setup in particular -- which might be an rxvt-unicode problem, but not a problem that affects me, evidently.

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