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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:30:21 -0500
From: Will Senn <will_senn AT comcast DOT net>
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Subject: Cygwin Here and $HOME
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All,

I have a couple of questions for y'all, but first the background:

I like to be able to right click a folder in explorer and have a menu
item : Cygwin Here that opens a Cygwin command prompt at the folder
that I have selected. I wrote this registry file to accomplish the
task and it works. However, I had to edit /etc/profile and comment out
cd $HOME - I added a line pwd to print the current directory as well.
This is great when I am using the Cygwin Here action, but it messes
with the normal shortcut as well (it starts up in /usr/bin because the
cd $HOME was commented out).  Ideally, if I use the Cygwin Here
action, it would start me up in whatever folder I had selected and
when I double click the shortcut it would start me in /home/wsenn.
This brings up the second problem which is $HOME, my $HOME variable
points to d:\Documents and Settings\wsenn, not /home/wsenn (my
preference since the other is cluttered with junk for XP).

Here's the registry export:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygwinHere]
@="Cygwin Prompt Here"
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygwinHere\command]
@="D:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -i"

My questions are:
1. Is there a better way of doing the Cygwin Prompt Here/Normal
Shortcut startup?
2. Why not $CYGWIN_HOME?

Thanks,

Will

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