From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 108544 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2016 23:34:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 108536 invoked by uid 89); 14 Apr 2016 23:34:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=moral, dealings, exclusively, !.! X-HELO: earth.ccil.org Received: from earth.ccil.org (HELO earth.ccil.org) (192.190.237.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:34:23 +0000 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aqqmD-0005bG-85 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:34:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:34:00 -0000 From: John Cowan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10 Message-ID: <20160414233421.GC29184@mercury.ccil.org> References: <416uDmm4T7200S05.1460552179@web05.cms.usa.net> <84CCF5B5-9F11-4541-A527-FD0BD3AE5545@etr-usa.com> <1117668279.20160414220758@yandex.ru> <20160414204000.GA7622@mercury.ccil.org> <204284648.20160415013838@yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <204284648.20160415013838@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00354.txt.bz2 Andrey Repin scripsit: > Welcome, poor child of a big blue button. Let me introduce you into my world. > The world, where file managers help you manage files. "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." I live in a word of command lines almost exclusively, unless I am running a Web browser. Consequently, the underlying system can be Linux, BSD, OS X, Cygwin, or none of the above. When I want to see a diff, I type "diff file1 file2 | less". > Right now, I hit Alt+Shift+D, which invokes a short macro calling menu entry > view: and get two files (or directories) on opposite panels diffed into an internal > viewer. Very efficient, I'm sure. But to each their own. > Because Cygwin diff consume normal Windows paths without an issue. No doubt. But it also handles /cygdrive/c paths, the moral equivalent of /mnt/c paths, and that's what I use. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org And they pack their lyrics till they're so damn dense You could put 'em in your yard and you could use 'em for a fence. --Alan Chapman, "Everybody Wants to Be Sondheim" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple