From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 70471 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2016 10:05:27 -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 70392 invoked by uid 89); 15 Apr 2016 10:05:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:Bat!, H*x:Bat!, H*r:sk:postmas, H*UA:Home X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:05:12 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1ar0cc-0007f0-T9 ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:05:07 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:53:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:05:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <754938730.20160415125306@yandex.ru> To: John Cowan , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10 In-Reply-To: <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> <20160414233421.GC29184@mercury.ccil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2 Greetings, John Cowan! >> 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. Of course, it is efficient. More efficient, than starting a shell each time I need to diff a file. Or 2-3 shells, if you call a wrapper. Which is least efficient, considering retarded CMD quoting rules. >> 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. Moral is a relative category. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 15, 2016 12:50:52 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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