Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/09/01:26:23
On 9 Aug 2002 at 1:05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> >> Oh, and it looks like you are actually setting cygwin values on the
> >> (Default) part of a registry entry. This is just an entry that Windows
> >> corrects. It is not what Cygwin reads. You have to actually *create*
> >> an entry called "default" (lowercase without the parentheses). Maybe
> >> this is your whole problem.
> >>
> >
> >No, I have done exactly what you said, above.
>
> Sorry but, no you haven't. You misinterpreted what I said. I said that
> you should *create* a string entry called "default". You didn't create
> one. You apparently used an existing "(Default)" that is established
> when you created the "Program Options" key. That is incorrect.
Actually, I have... I can see how you would misinterpret it because I
typed it wrong when I listed the registry key - I should not have put
the word "default" in parentheses. My bad. I did, in fact, create a a
new string entry key called "default" so my registry has two values:
(Default) and default with the default being the set value. This does
work as advertised, aside from the title/notitle problem.
The reason why I like this is that I do not have to keep a CYGWIN
environment variable in my NT environment, allowing the registry to keep
it. That way, if I ever want to uninstall cygwin, I would just delete
the proper registry keys (or hopefully, there will be some sort of
automatic method for doing so, if one already isn't in place). Then, I
don't have to worry about an NT environment variable hanging around.
You might want to make this a standard documented option.
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