On 2021-01-05, Jason Pyeron wrote: > I do not put Cygwin in my windows PATH, (anymore since about 10 years ago).
Sometimes it is useful to have GNU utils at hands. I use Far Commander and in order to find directory size I type: du -s -m NAME Also having Cygwin staff in PATH allows to start program elevated easily (<Win> NAME <Ctrl><Shift><Enter>). > I use an environment where settings are lost at logoff, so I have become > accustomed to launching it from the command prompt. > > I have not found it too difficult to type > > c:\cygwin64\bin\mintty /bin/bash -l It won't be productive for my workflow. I own dev PC, not restricted to corporate policies and launch mintty hundred times a day (have CDPATH and other convenience set as the environment is permanent). Though I might get rid of Cygwin from PATH too. For starting Emacs I wrote wrapper that run it elevated (and hides that irritating console as I use emacs-w32) - it is a pleasure to be able to edit Windows /etc/hosts from within Emacs )) Same wrapper can be written for Mintty and placed to PATH. Though I wouldn't do that because all IDEs are rely on git.exe from Cygwin... It is pity that Mercurial comes with "shell" launcher, so cannot be used by non-Cygwin programs. -- http://defun.work/ -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
