Re: Bash Here - Start Cygwin from a folders context menu

["Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org>]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote:

> Hi!

Hi back at you !-)

> Bitte antworten an "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit@familiehaase.de>
> Gesendet von:   cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> An:     David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
> Kopie:  cygwin@cygwin.com 
> Thema:  Re: Bash Here - Start Cygwin from a folders context menu
> 
> >> I'd like it to work before I reference it in the FAQ.
> 
> Fine!
> 
> > Well, it was some fiddeling.
> > It worked well but now as I tried
> > to reinstall, it doesn't work on
> > mounted drives anymore:-(
[snip]
> Neccessary changes for zsh I leave upto the reader ;-)

... and here you go (pretty simply, really):

--- start of "zsh-here.reg" ---
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\zshHere]
@="Shell: zsh prompt here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\zshHere\command]
@="C:\\Programme\\Cygwin\\cygwin.bat \"%1\""


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\zshHere]
@="Shell: zsh prompt here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\zshHere\command]
@="C:\\Programme\\Cygwin\\cygwin.bat \"%1\""
--- end of "zsh-here.reg" ---

--- start of "cygwin.bat" ---
@echo off

C:
chdir \Programme\cygwin\bin
echo cd %1 | sed -e "s#\(.\):\(.*\)#/cygdrive/\1\2#" -e "s#\\\\#/#g" > %HOMEDRIVE%\.zshcd

zsh -l -i
--- end of "cygwin.bat" ---

--- start of "/etc/zprofile" ---
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"

USER="`id -un`"

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi

if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$HOME"
fi

export HOME USER

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
    . $i
  fi
done

export MAKE_MODE=unix
export PS1='(%n@%m)[%h] %~ $ '

cd "$HOME"

test -f ./.zshcd && . ./.zshcd && rm -f $HOME/.zshcd
--- end of "/etc/zprofile" ---

> For W2K cmd.exe it is less complicated. You only need registry settings 
> since it is not neccessary to replace '\' with '/' and substitute 'c:' 
> with '/cygdrive/c' and there is an option telling cmd.exe to execute a 
> commandline given command, then go to interactive mode:

--- start of "cmd-here.reg" ---
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\DosHere]
@="Shell: CMD &prompt here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\DosHere\Command]
@="C:\\WINNT\\System32\\cmd.exe /k cd \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\DosHere]
@="Shell: CMD &prompt here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\DosHere\Command]
@="C:\\WINNT\\System32\\cmd.exe /k cd \"%1\""
--- end of "cmd-here.reg" ---

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood


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