Marco Atzeri sent the following at Friday, March 18, 2016 11:01 AM >On 18/03/2016 15:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I frequently ping-pong back and forth between working in the Windows >> and Cygwin environments, needing to keep both Explorer windows and >> Cygwin PWD focused on the same folder/directory. (I use mintty in >> Cygwin.) >> >> To open an Explorer window to my Cygwin PWD, I can simply type "cygstart .". >> The reverse is a clumsy bit of typing and mousing: From Cygwin/bash, >> enter "cd " (but not Return), go to my Explorer window and drag the >> folder icon from the address bar into the mintty window and press return. >> I'm looking for a simpler method. >> >> My ideal scenario is to right-click in the Explorer window, select the >> new Cygwin option that I'd like to appear, and this would open a >> mintty/bash window with PWD set to that Windows folder. >> >> Long shot, I know, but if anyone has done this and is willing to share >> I'd love to hear about it. BTW, I'm using Windows 7 and am current on >> Cygwin 64-bit. > > "Cygwin Prompt Here context menus" > looks on chere package
For a while recently - and for unknown reasons - the chere menu entries were not working for me. I ended up creating a shortcut in my SendTo folder/menu that would open a bash window in the directory containing the highlighted file or folder. Not perfect, but better than nothing. Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "%L" Start in: [leave blank] I don't remember whether there might be any customizations in .bashrc that helped this to work, so YMMV. BTW, chere is back working for me now. Don't remember what - if anything noticeable - changed. - Barry -- 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