On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote:
>>On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH wrote:
>>> Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about
>>> setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal an
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH wrote:
>> Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about
>> setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you link me
>> to something?
>
>I have a shortcut
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH wrote:
> Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about
> setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you link me
> to something?
I have a shortcut with the following target, on my desktop:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe
Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about
setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you
link me to something?
LMH
Csaba Raduly wrote:
2011/8/20 LMH wrote:
So I guess this is resolved, but I suppose I should look in to running the
mintty ter
2011/8/20 LMH wrote:
> So I guess this is resolved, but I suppose I should look in to running the
> mintty terminal. What are the basic advantages of this compared to running
> in cmd?
* Resizable
* Easier copy & paste (and consistent with xterm etc.)
* Much wider font selection
Csaba
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Thank you for all the clarification on shells and terminals, I have
always used the terms interchangeably, which I guess was not correct.
A few replies,
> Is there any religious taboo that would prevent you from opening the
> batch script in an editor and see that you're wrong?
No, I did this
On Aug 19 21:19, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31 PM, LMH wrote:
>
> (Please don't top-post)
> > I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having
> > those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned
> > about the health of the insta
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31 PM, LMH wrote:
(Please don't top-post)
> I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having
> those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned
> about the health of the install.
The health of the Cygwin install should be u
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:56:49 +0200)
> You are confusing a terminal and the shell it runs in.
I meant "you are confusing a shell and the terminal it runs in".
Thorsten
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* LMH (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:50:01 -0400)
> If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window
> bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify
> properties of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font
> size, etc.
You're not modifying the bash shel
On 08/19/2011 12:31 PM, LMH wrote:
I don't know anything about mintty and have always used bash. Can I run
all of my bash commands, or would I be learning a new shell?
cmd, mintty, rxvt, xterm, and the like are terminals (the gui program
that displays your tty in a window) - they are useless u
I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having
those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned
about the health of the install. The desktop icon points to Cygwin.bat,
but that doesn't have anything in it about the bash shell. Can someone
point m
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, LMH wrote:
>
> If you double click on the Cygwin icon on the desktop, it starts a bash
> shell. If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window
> bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify properties
> of the bash shell wi
Sorry, I didn't reply correctly when I first tired to send this.
This was simply modifying the shortcut that starts the bash window.
If you double click on the Cygwin icon on the desktop, it starts a bash
shell. If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top
window bar, you can s
* LMH (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:59:12 -0400)
> I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to
> modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows
> error message,
>
> "can't modify the shortcut
> .
> make sure it has not been deleted or renamed"
Why on earth and
I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to
modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows
error message,
"can't modify the shortcut
.
make sure it has not been deleted or renamed"
I currently have cygwin installed at E:/cygwin and I also tried
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