my 2 cents
some things fail if they’re called from within cygwin due to the path adjustments that are necessary for cygwin. to call them with a sane (clean) windows-environment, do the following: OLDPATH=”$PATH” export PATH=”$(echo $PATH | tr ‘:’ ‘\n’ | grep … Read More »
Migrating a cygwin-installation to a new machine was a real PITA to me, since I always have to run the installer many many times to have all the tools I forgot in the previous runs. And this terrible way of … Read More »
set the rxvt title using a shell-command: printf \\033]0\;\%s\\007 “$title” using this e.g. as bin/set_rxvt_title, you can push even a cygwin-rxvt-ssh session to dynamically change the window-title to the host you connect to. put this into your “~/.ssh/config“: PermitLocalCommand yes … Read More »