From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 76903 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2019 15:09:34 -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 76896 invoked by uid 89); 28 Mar 2019 15:09:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Mintty, editor, cf, launch X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:09:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 9WenhyntCo7SQ9Weohc8GV; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:09:30 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5c9cb1c3.1c69fb81.d132f.62a6@mx.google.com> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <25c130d5-d979-b137-ebdb-326c584545ac@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5c9cb1c3.1c69fb81.d132f.62a6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00627.txt.bz2 On 2019-03-28 05:36, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, >> your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. > > That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is > disingenuous so simply say that it does not require a shell, unless you want to > change the default to load "top" as you said. I found it useful to create a mintty info alias xinfo c.f. xman; likewise to launch cygwin32 and WSL distro commands or terms in windows from Cygwin64/X. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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