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Subject: Re: drag and drop folder from Explorer to cygwin
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Richard Trevor wrote:

> I'd like to drag a folder from Windows Explorer (XP) and drop it on the cygwin desktop shortcut,
> causing a cygwin (bash) shell to open in the folder directory.

I don't think there's any magic to it, when you drop something onto a
shortcut it just sets the arguments to the filenames of the items.  So
you'd need to modify the batch file to check if %1 is set and use the
chere mechanism, i.e. cd to %1 and then set CHERE_INVOKING to prevent
the /etc/profile from changing to $HOME.

Brian

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