Windows ?

[stonebig]

Hi Jonathan,

Happy New year 2016.

Does this work on Windows too ?

[jonathanslenders]

Unfortunately, it does not work on Windows. (Or, not yet.)

The windows console is very different from a pseudo terminal, like we know on Linux and Unix. I think, that technically, it should be possible to make it compatible with Windows, but that would require many changes. So, this is maybe some thing that we can do in the future, but probably not very soon.

Happy new year for you too!

[giann]

However it works perfectly well on cygwin

[stonebig]

cygwin could be a last resort solution, but I guess there is a catch.

[stonebig]

my favorite rådgiver says cygwin is a painfull solution https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/9107#issuecomment-168965899

[jonathanslenders]

Some notes for myself, if Windows support would ever be feasible. It's worth looking at the source code of ConEmu to see how these things work on Windows.

It appears that sub processes can be created by calling CreateProcess [0]. There is a flag CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE [1] that runs the child process in a separate console. And probably GetConsoleScreenBuffer(Ex) [2] should return the content of the console for that process.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682512%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684863%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683171%28v=vs.85%29.aspx and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683172%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[Tset-Noitamotua]

would like to see it on Windows (native, no cygwin or msys) ;-)

[zommuter]

@jonathanslenders Since you already mention ConEmu, its -inside options sound interesting.

[zommuter]

Btw, when I try running pymux from msysgit's bash, I get an import error since fcntl does not work with Windows. Maybe those functions could be made optional, or portalocker, also mentioned in that SO question, be used.