Seething over MSYS shell - is it replaceable?

Question

I need a serviceable shell for MSYS. This is my current dilemma:

The default rxvt.exe has a scroll bar and copy and paste, but doesn\'t send control characters or arro

Answer 1

This question has gone a bit stale; mintty is now included by default in MSYS2. Ironically enough, I was unable to access the command history in GHCi -- pressing up would move the cursor, and place \ESC codes in the input buffer -- and this was fixed for me by removing mintty (pacman -R mintty from the MSYS2 shell).