On 5/10/2011 09:50, Bernhard Ege wrote: > I generelly use command line editing a lot (is tty necessary for that?).
General command line usage doesn't require the setting. If in doubt though, remove the setting and try things out for a bit. You'll probably find that nothing changes for your usage, but it's possible you have a use case no one else considered yet. > My other use is to open a Command window using windows explorer to have > it change directory to the shown directory (shift-right click->Open > Command Windows Here). From that windows I type "C:\cygwin\bin\bash -l" > to get a cygwin prompt. There I type "cd -" to get back to the chosen > directory to perform whatever task I need (mostly grep, find, running > make, again some command line editing, rarely using an editor). You should check out the chere package. It will allow you to directly open a Cygwin shell from the context menu rather than jump through the hoops you're doing here. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple