From: Pat Tressel <ptressel@myuw.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin errors after altering Windows command prompt shortcut (???)
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABT-+2p-r5WoZsOGTgj-7U1CMeyYwN4L+Oy+nLELd7Fe5Zr3hQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A5C157275@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
>>>> It's even weirder, than you'd think.
>>>> Hint: reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
>>>
>>The MSYS part of msysgit doesn't muck with registry keys. Maybe
>>something with tksh that it uses does.
>
> Since HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console has subkeys (on my machine) for bash
> and cmd, perhaps the key is created and maintained by Window's console
> handling facilities. Seems to me to be more likely than a cygwin shell
> knowing about and needing the Windows registry.
>
> Just a guess.
On my system, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console has a Cygwin subkey (and a Git
Bash subkey, but I don't use Git Bash). I don't know if that is still
in use (given comments re. Cygwin not needing the registry any longer,
which I may have misinterpreted), but with the odd behavior, maybe it
is still in use.
-- Pat
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[not found] <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A5C157275@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
2012-03-01 6:20 ` Andrey Repin
2012-03-01 6:33 ` Pat Tressel
2012-03-01 6:24 ` Pat Tressel [this message]
2012-03-01 23:05 ` Andrey Repin
[not found] <CABT-+2rFSA4V6eoS0f9a1RX7+cmk7NpkQBgGx5DSiHhBSThJyg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-28 11:33 ` Pat Tressel
2012-02-28 12:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-02-28 22:50 ` Pat Tressel
2012-02-29 2:27 ` Andrey Repin
2012-02-29 3:49 ` Pat Tressel
2012-02-29 12:52 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-02-29 21:28 ` Andrey Repin
[not found] ` <CABT-+2rgkM5rG7AFgxPev1vBd534+6q=NkV7-20-N-RAOH=TnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-04-30 12:19 ` Pat Tressel
2012-04-30 13:04 ` Pat Tressel
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