Thanks to everyone who has contributed to mintty in some way, in particular: - Simon Tatham and the PuTTY team. Mintty is based on PuTTY's terminal emulation and Windows frontend parts.
- Mark Edgar, author of the PuTTYcyg patch for using PuTTY as a Cygwin terminal, which provided much inspiration. Mintty actually started as a hacked PuTTYcyg (although its code for hooking into Cygwin was fully replaced along the way).
- KDE's Oxygen team, for the sleek program icon (which was designed for Konsole).
- Markus Kuhn, for his free advice, code and tests for supporting Unicode.
- Ahmad Khalifa, for PuTTY's BiDI (bi-directional text) implementation.
- Michael Kaplan, Microsoft's Dr International, for the wealth of information on his blog, with many gems such as He's dead (keys), Jim.
- Thomas Dickey, for setting the de-facto terminal standard for Unix terminals with xterm, documenting it in lots of detail, and being very responsive to questions and suggestions.
- The authors of Cygwin's rxvt, particularly Chuck Wilson, who adapted it to use Win32 directly instead of requiring an X server. While no longer developed, rxvt remains an important reference for how a Cygwin terminal should work.
- Corinna Vinschen, for Cygwin 1.7's locale and charset implementation, which allowed mintty to gain a crucial advantage over rxvt: Unicode support.
- Christopher Faylor, for the Cygwin pty implementation, which mintty very much depends on, especially for its speed.
- Simon Steele, for Programmer's Notepad, a relatively simple yet powerful open source editor for Windows that makes mintty code a joy to work on.
- Murray Anderson, Andrew Aylett and Alexander Noack: mintty's earliest adopters, who helped to find and fix the most egregious bugs before mintty was announced to the Cygwin world.
- Yaakov Selkowitz, for creating mintty's initial Cygwin setup.exe package and the cygport tool that is used to build it.
- Lee D. Rothstein, for his help in writing a man page for mintty.
- Thomas Wolff, author of the mined Unicode editor, for lots of much-needed help in improving mintty's terminal emulation and locale support and making it more xterm-compatible.
- Chris Sutcliffe, for packaging mintty for MSYS, and always testing the latest broken svn versions.
- Iwamuro Motonori, for valuable advice regarding support for East Asian languages.
- The many users who have helped to improve mintty by reporting bugs and suggesting enhancements.
Cheers, Andy
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