[Unison-hackers] prompts require newline in Cygwin

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

If you're willing to recompile, try changing

  let supportSignals = Util.osType = `Unix (*|| Util.isCygwin*)

in uitext.ml to

  let supportSignals = Util.osType = `Unix || Util.isCygwin

and see if things improve...

    - B


On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:

> There's a small thing about Unison in Cygwin that's been bothering me for a
> long time.
> 
> In Linux, when I'm synchronizing and I get a prompt for what to do with a
> single file or to proceed with updates, I don't have to hit the enter key
> after my answer - I just press the key, e.g. 'y' to go ahead, and it does.
> 
> But in Cygwin, after I answer the prompt, I have to also hit Enter.  It's
> always been that way, ever since I first started building Unison for
> Cygwin, way back around version 2.9.
> 
> It would be nice to fix that, but I don't have a clue what the reason is.
> Can anyone suggest a solution?  Our ocaml in Cygwin is 3.08.1, BTW.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
> 
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