Chapter 2 of the Cygwin User's Guide [1] has a section called "Customizing 
bash" [2]. 
This section starts off: 

        To set up bash so that cut and paste work properly, click on the 
"Properties" 
        button of the window, then on the "Misc" tab.

Two problems:
(1) This statement doesn't apply to folks who are running the default terminal 
emulation program, mintty.
(2) If folks are invoking bash directly from the Windows console, the cmd.exe 
tab 
is named "Options", at least for Windows 7, which I am running. Perhaps it was 
named
"Misc" once upon a time.

Since the statement doesn't apply to the default (mintty) installation, perhaps 
the 
paragraph should simply be deleted. Alternatively, I suggest replacing the 
sentence 
with the following:

        To set up bash so that cut and paste work properly while running the 
Windows 
        console program, cmd.exe, click on the "Properties" button of the 
window, then
        on the "Options" tab.

[1] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-files.html

--Ken Nellis

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