Comments on: My Top Cygwin Utilities/Tips http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/ Welcome to your head. Sun, 08 May 2011 22:22:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ashish http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Ashish Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:13:47 +0000 http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/#comment-280 I hope Lee reads this: Lee, I use bash because I can type v and then ctrl-P in succession, and it will show me all the commands I gave, e.g. vim ast/ast.h, or vlock. Or I do m and then ctrl-P and I get make, make clean, make -C test etc. Its done using: "\C-p": history-search-backward "\C-n": history-search-forward The day I see this in powershell, I'll switch back. Right now, this is the ONLY, I repeat, ONLY reason I'm using linux in my lab. The only thing I use on it is bash in yakuake and vim, as I do C++ development. Yakuake is another secondary reason, but its actually bash that I'm stuck with, though I wouldn't mind if the powershell gui could look better, I mean really, how can you even look at the default fonts. And I hate going through the process of changing them to Lucida console, though finally I did it. I hope Lee reads this:
Lee, I use bash because I can type v and then ctrl-P in succession, and it will show me all the commands I gave, e.g. vim ast/ast.h, or vlock.
Or I do m and then ctrl-P and I get make, make clean, make -C test etc.
Its done using:
“\C-p”: history-search-backward
“\C-n”: history-search-forward

The day I see this in powershell, I’ll switch back.
Right now, this is the ONLY, I repeat, ONLY reason I’m using linux in my lab. The only thing I use on it is bash in yakuake and vim, as I do C++ development.

Yakuake is another secondary reason, but its actually bash that I’m stuck with, though I wouldn’t mind if the powershell gui could look better, I mean really, how can you even look at the default fonts. And I hate going through the process of changing them to Lucida console, though finally I did it.

]]> By: mendicant http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/comment-page-1/#comment-231 mendicant Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:40:18 +0000 http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/#comment-231 Thanks! I didn't know they had that. Now they just need to add persistent history between powershell sessions (last I checked I could only find had a hack that persisted to CSV between sessions) and some builtin options for the Tab completion of files. :) Thanks! I didn’t know they had that. Now they just need to add persistent history between powershell sessions (last I checked I could only find had a hack that persisted to CSV between sessions) and some builtin options for the Tab completion of files. :)

]]> By: Lee Holmes http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Lee Holmes Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:24:35 +0000 http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/#comment-230 Re: 6. History Search This is probably the biggest reason I use bash over powershell, cmd or other windows command line utils. Open your ~/.inputrc file and add the following lines: Agree - this is a pain. One thing we added in version two is the ability to search through history through tab completion. If you start a line with the '#' sign, anything you put after it becomes a search string for your history in tab completion. http://powershell.labs.oreilly.com/ch01.html#invoke-command-history You can even customize the built-in TabExpansion function to tweak this to the behaviour you want. Lee Holmes [MSFT] Windows PowerShell Development Re:

6. History Search

This is probably the biggest reason I use bash over powershell, cmd or other windows command line utils. Open your ~/.inputrc file and add the following lines:

Agree – this is a pain. One thing we added in version two is the ability to search through history through tab completion. If you start a line with the ‘#’ sign, anything you put after it becomes a search string for your history in tab completion. http://powershell.labs.oreilly.com/ch01.html#invoke-command-history

You can even customize the built-in TabExpansion function to tweak this to the behaviour you want.

Lee Holmes [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Development

]]> By: mendicant http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/comment-page-1/#comment-229 mendicant Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:57:41 +0000 http://blog.beigesunshine.com/2010/04/08/my-top-cygwin-utilitiestips/#comment-229 Ohhh. Totally forgot about rsync. I also use that to do simple backups. Ohhh. Totally forgot about rsync. I also use that to do simple backups.

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