X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DC9528C.70701@bopp.net> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:58:20 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why? References: <20110509161028.GJ27739@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DC950CB.3010108@ege.cc> In-Reply-To: <4DC950CB.3010108@ege.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/10/2011 09:50, Bernhard Ege wrote: > I generelly use command line editing a lot (is tty necessary for that?). General command line usage doesn't require the setting. If in doubt though, remove the setting and try things out for a bit. You'll probably find that nothing changes for your usage, but it's possible you have a use case no one else considered yet. > 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). You should check out the chere package. It will allow you to directly open a Cygwin shell from the context menu rather than jump through the hoops you're doing here. -Jeremy -- 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