On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On May 23 11:33, Charles Wilson wrote: >> as-is. What if you really WANT to use cmdbox? How else can a >> cygwin-shell-in-cmdbox be started, other than a .bat file of some kind? >> And since that's the only real way to do so, we ought to provide the file. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Huh? > >You can simple create a Windows shortcut to bash.exe, edit it to >add a --login option, and that's all you really need.
I agree, except for people who "need" to set the CYGWIN environment variable for some reason. You have to do that before running bash. Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever) to the global PATH as well. But, I am extemely in favor of making mintty the default terminal. It would present a much nicer end-user experience out-of-the-box even if some pty stuff doesn't work quite right. And, I can just imagine the blog entries now: "Cygwin finally offers an intelligent terminal interface - after ten years!" The only downside that I see is that Andy may ask to renegotiate his contract. I wouldn't be surprised if he asked to be paid double what he's getting now, in fact. cgf