Or if you are running Cygwin's ssh server, you can just ssh into it using putty (even if you are on the same machine)! - Vee. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Venkat Chandra <vc.lists at gmail.com> wrote: > I second Andrew's Console recommendation for use with Cygwin. > > Open Console2 and select Edit > Settings > Tabs. Add a new tab - say > "Cygwin" and for the Shell: I just pointed to the .bat file which > usually starts my cygwin shell (C:\cygwin\cygwin-zsh.bat in my case). > You should now be able to use Console2 to create new Cygwin session by > going to: File > New Tab > Cygwin! > > I love it! And yes, Console is portable (as in you can use with a > flash drive on most Windows installations). > > - Vee. > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2011.03.22 01:33 PM, Mike Miller wrote: >>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Andrew Berg wrote: >>> >>> > I found Cygwin annoying since /everything/ depends on the base library. >>> >>> What is annoying about that? I mean, is it something to do with speed, >>> file size, portability? There must be something that annoys you. Maybe >>> it annoys me too, but I don't understand the issue. >> I can't remember exactly why I ditched Cygwin since it was so long ago. >>> > MinGW/MSYS is basically the same thing, except without that dependence. >>> >>> Is it portable? Maybe that would be even better than Cygwin for some of >>> the things I do. >> I think so, as long as you use msys.bat. >>> By the way, I hate the Cygwin terminal window -- it seems to be the MS >>> Windows command window with bash running in it. I always use an rxvt >>> terminal in Cygwin. >> I use Console ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ ). It only >> supports a few shells directly (I though only cmd.exe worked, but >> apparently the Python interpreter works too), but you can easily have >> cmd launch an arbitrary shell (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c >> C:\MinGW\bin\bash.exe --login -i). >> I think it's portable, but I haven't tested it. >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >