01.22.2010
Better consoles for cygwin shells
by Mike Christianson
Let’s face it, cygwin is neat but the console it launches is lame. I’m not referring to bash, but rather the normal — and thus lame — Windows command box. Things just don’t feel right… some keys don’t work as expected and forget about making the window wider. Fortunately, there is a better way!
Rather, I should say there are better ways: puttycyg and mintty.
puttycyg is a patched version of putty with support for cygwin. mintty is … well, yeah, it’s based on putty, too.
If you use cygwin, you owe it to yourself to try one or both of them immediately. And by that I mean stop reading and start downloading. Now.
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