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  • September 29, 2009

    When I wrote about bash support for the basic Emacs text-editing command set, I should have mentioned Cygwin, the bash emulator for Windows. Cygwin ships with a Linux terminal emulator, that runs bash and so supports Emacs keyboard navigation shortcuts.

    photo: wili_hybrid

    If you haven't, try it. Especially if you are a Windows user and haven't tried they GNU/Linux tools yet.

    Cygwin can change your life by enabling you to do things that you generally just can't do on Windows, at least not out-of-the box.

    It's so awesome to have a free tool that will let you, for instance, search for files on your hard drive by name and by content, at the same time. And it's free. I'm consistently surprised by the preponderance of ten-to-fifty-dollar shareware programs, whose functionality can be duplicated with a 5 or 10 line shell script, and perhaps a little Perl.