[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

[Thomas Wolff]

Hello Andrey,

On 10.12.2018 14:08, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>
>>>>> BTW, Cygwin itself does it differently. %Cygwin%\bin is converted to /usr/bin.
>>>> This setup should be handled in the Posix path domain.
>>> Give me a good reason why should you second-guess Cygwin's own functionality?
>> You have apparently set up some cmd scripts as mintty user commands, so
>> you're thinking in Windows terms here.
> One is very distantly related to another.
> I set up programs to work as user commands, it's not actually relevant, if
> they are cmd scripts, or perl, both, or neither.
Acknowledged.

>> However, the idea is more to use cygwin tools for such purposes. In either
>> case, the path is handled within a cygwin session (mintty) and cygwin does
>> the conversion both ways, so it should be fine for you.
> The path is handled within a **cygwin** session, but mintty is not it.
Sure mintty is a cygwin program, linked with cygwin and thus starting a 
cygwin session.

> And you don't have to second-guess cygwin behavior, if you do it the way I
> propose. And you would be safe if behavior would one day change (though I do
> not foresee it in this case).
I'm not tampering with cygwin behaviour in any way, just changing PATH, 
so that a tool subsequently invoked by `popen` can use it.

> P.S.
> I've tried to do it "your way" for tests.
> Had enough of an issue starting Cygwin itself and rolled it back.
> Cygwin already quite capable of path conversion, no need to deny it this ability.
Not sure whether you're having a problem with your mintty command 
scripts. I've tested this thoroughly, everything works fine in these 
configuration combinations, with a test script D:\bin\test.cmd that 
echoes %MINTTY_SELECT% attached to keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+t:

KeyFunctions=t:`test.cmd`
UserCommandsPath=D:\bin:%s

KeyFunctions=t:`test.cmd`
UserCommandsPath=/cygdrive/d/bin:%s

KeyFunctions=t:`D:/bin/test.cmd`
#UserCommandsPath=

KeyFunctions=t:`/cygdrive/d/bin/test.cmd`
#UserCommandsPath=

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