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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:30:36 -0400
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Subject:	Idea on how to improve cygstart
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Hi.

Well, maybe there's a better word than "improve." Maybe "streamline" 
would be better. Anyhow, here it is.

Allow users to create a list of paths to GUI apps they have on their 
systems -- other than the selected Windows defaults -- and using either 
aliases (like "monkey" for SeaMonkey 2.0 or "irfan" for IrfanView) or a 
syntax similar to how ImageMagick used to work (library:filetype) when 
converting files from one format to another, facilitate quick and easy 
opening of files in applications Cygwin users would _prefer to open them 
in, rather than the assigned default.

Should this prove to be too radical a re-working of cygstart, then 
perhaps it's time to introduce another utility to perform the above 
tasks, and have it install with Cygwin and update with upgrades. Maybe 
call it "userstart" or "winstart" or something along those lines?

Unless I miss my guess, this might put Cygwin ahead of complete and 
genuine Linux/Unix distributions such as Ubuntu, It's been my experience 
with the latter that instead of system defaults, one only has recourse 
on the command line to a spare list of GUI apps that open different file 
types, and not all of them are "out-of-the-box" Debian or GNOME 
installs, which puts one at a disadvantage (if only w/regard to the time 
involved in doing "apt-gets").

Steve W

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