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I am using cygwin for a long time now. It is one of the first tools I install on the Windows systems I am working on.
The bad thing about cygwin is that it uses the Windows Command/Console to run the bash. Selecting text, copy and paste are really hard to do inside the Windows Console so I searched for a better solution.
I came across puttycyg which is basically a manipulated putty that allows to make a “connection” to the local cygwin installation. This is the perfect way for me to have a real bash functioniality under Windows. Working with maven, subversion and git got a lot better for me.
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4 Responses to Improving cygwin console
Andy
September 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Hi, you might want to give mintty a spin as well, which is based on bits of PuTTY, but tailored specially for Cygwin. Smaller, simpler, and more xterm-compatible than PuTTYcyg, with some additional features such as window transparency and an option to place the command line cursor with the mouse.
tompson
September 10th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Thanks for that tip Andy, I will give mintty a spin … looks great so far
jetm
November 26th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Use http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
In
Console2->Setting->Console->Shell \bin\bash –login -i
and
Console2->Setting->Console->Startup dir \bin\
tompson
November 26th, 2009 at 10:55 am
@jetm thanks for that tip – looks great, I will try it the next days