Best terminal environment for Cygwin/Windows?
I'm currently using PuttyCyg (http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/). I'm not sure if it will contain fixes needed by you, but it has several other cool features, for example configurations stored to typical putty profiles, which can be invoked like: putty -load mycygwin1. Such profile can configure things like:
- logging sessions to a file,
- character sequences for delete, home, and other keys,
- window colors and fonts.
Edit: it is possible to enter chars you mentioned. UTF-8 support is also provided (it has to be turned on in configuration).
Add the following two lines to the readline config file ~/.inputrc
set convert-meta offset output-meta onShould work both in rxvt and mintty. More here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Readline-Init-File-Syntax