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Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
- From: Bernhard Ege <bernhard at ege dot cc>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:50:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
- References: <20110509161028.GJ27739@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 09-05-2011 18:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console
as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why.
I have, perhaps unnecessarily, tty defined (as well as ntsec).
My typical use of cygwin involves opening a cygwin window using a
desktop shortcut (link til bat file):
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
I generelly use command line editing a lot (is tty necessary for that?).
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).
If tty doesn't make a difference for my use, I have little objection to
removing it.
Bernhard
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