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 >