What I Learned Today » cygwin http://christiansons.net/mike/blog Mike Christianson's journal of Java, Ant, SVN, Jetty, cygwin and other stuff. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:24:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Better consoles for cygwin shells http://christiansons.net/mike/blog/2010/01/better-consoles-for-cygwin-shells/ http://christiansons.net/mike/blog/2010/01/better-consoles-for-cygwin-shells/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:29 +0000 Mike Christianson http://christiansons.net/mike/blog/?p=436 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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