I installed Git on my Windows 10 a couple of months ago. It worked well for some time. But now, it's running very slow. The git status command takes 7 seconds to execute, and git stash takes many m...

I appreciate that this is borderline off-topic, but it does "directly involve programming or programming tools" so I figure it's just about OK... I've just installed a newly downloaded version of ...

I want to increase the default font Lucida Console from 9pt to 12pt and adjust the blue color quality. Currently the only way I can find to do it is by right-clicking the Cygwin window and selectin...

Introduction Using chalk I have written a small console program for printing colored text, which I execute with NodeJS: console.log(require('chalk').yellow('yellow text')); The program prints t...

I updated msys2 recently and found mintty always shows 'Shells (bash)' dialog before it invokes. It's little bit annoying to click the button every time, how can I suppress this dialog with fixi...

(my OS is win 10) I can't find option to enable QuickEdit mode? when I select block with left click, git bash copy(extend from win 10 command line) by execute Ctrl + C automatically. So it termin...

I find that when launching q from cygwin underneath mintty, the console generally seems to work, however the q) prompt is not displayed. I am just met with a blank line. I have the latest cygwin, ...

I have read (and tried) this: https://docs.docker.com/machine/completion/ But it seems this is not the right way to get it on. Anybody know how to get docker completion commands in Mintty (from G...

I would like to bind CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (without prefix) to tmux functions, under minTTY/cygwin. I have tried the following tmux configuration: set-option -gw xterm-keys on bind-key -n ...

I wrote a simple CURL and put it in a script file. if i run mintty first and then "test.sh" it runs the script in the file just fine. Works perfectly. however, if i try to run mintty with any of ...

I am using gitbash via conemu. I have a charset issue where the chars look wrong in gitbash via conemu and gitbash directly. I fixed it in gitbash by setting the locale in .minttyrc to .. BoldAs...

I have a small perl script, which is executed in a cygwin terminal and prints out a formatted table. On Default window size, cygwin will insert an line break if the text gets too long and thereby d...

How to do a text search into a cygwin window buffer ? Is there a way to make the same kind of text seach as in Windows console buffer (right-click > search) ? (I use mintty)

I wish to use additional fonts in mintty, I want to add Monaco font to my cygwin terminal. While mintty does help me to customise fonts and appearance. I cannot get to use additional fonts. I added...

When using git add --patch somefile.txt in cygwin I get a bizarre response. After first typing the command it waits for me to hit enter without displaying anything. Once I press enter I get the fo...

Using mintty as terminal, running it like this : C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - I cannot type characters like ~,[,{ ... But I can type all those characters on the windows...

I don't understand why unicode is not working in my MinTTY terminal. I am using Windows XP I have Cygwin v1.7.10 and MinTTY v1.0.3. Am also using the zsh shell (via "oh-my-zsh") I have set local ...

I can't seem to open the interactive mode of PSQL using MINTTY or using the default Cygwin terminal, it just stalls under the command psql databasename and does nothing. The only way to get it to r...

I have installed the official windows git distribution, and I installed a recent mingw, and into that the mintty terminal. Then I have copied my git installation to this mingw installation, and now...

I currently have this under my shortcut C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - after that is run i have to type in cd x:ENTER then i run a curl script which does not change. I tri...