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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 8/22/12 12:10 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +0000, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing in > >> there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. > > > > All three changes will be available in the next release (profile_d > > modification taken from your last version in this thread). > > Are you sure that's actually a good idea? I don't agree with this logic: > People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this > change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. > Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't > think this change should go into the default startup scripts. I for one never start windows programs from within a shell, with the exception of firefox, and for that I registered an entry in the alternatives system (x-www-browser), however, I take your advice and I'll give this a second thought, and also would like to hear from others' opnion wrt to this. Obviously, ORIGINAL_PATH (as proposed in Achim's patch) would still hold the native Windows' PATH, so it'd be very easy to include a (commented?) line using it, so it would be easy to switch it: #PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${ORIGINAL_PATH}" -- Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56
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