MinTTY is a fantastic piece of software that smoothes some of the edges of the Windows command line experience. You should use it and here's why:

1. MinTTY comes with Cygwin

Mintty Themes for Windows. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin and MSYS with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. It is based on parts of PuTTY by Simon Tatham and provides xterm-compatible terminal emulation, but does not require an X server.

Installing MinTTY is trivial: just select the mintty package in Cygwin's setup.exe and point your Cygwin shortcut to C:cygwinbinmintty.exe -. The trailing hyphen is important.

2. Sane copy and paste

By default, MinTTY copies on select and pastes on right-click, just like Linux. However, you can make it behave like a typical Windows application and show a context menu upon right-click.

I won't bother explaining how difficult copying and pasting is in standard Windows consoles.

3. Resizing

MinTTY supports arbitrary window sizes, including maximized. Enough said.

4. Works with less/emacs/ssh

Because MinTTY is based on PuTTY, it doesn't display output strangely when running emacs over ssh, among other examples.

5. It's FAST

Anyone who has done command line work on Windows has surely noticed that, when a program spews output to the console, system performance nosedives. Sometimes, even the mouse cursor skips, making it hard to kill the program responsible.

MinTTY doesn't have this problem -- it uses minimal CPU, even under heavy load.

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6. Doesn't bypass RSI Guard

Five years ago, I was diagnosed with repetitive stress injuries from programming. To make matters worse, I get obsessive when I work, and nothing can pull me away from the keyboard.

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RSI Guard keeps my wrists and elbows pain-free by enforcing short, periodic breaks. However.. years of exposure to RSI Guard has caused me to discover its holes. For example, native console windows bypass RSI Guard's protection, so when RSI Guard blocked keyboard and mouse input, I would quickly switch to typing in a console window and continue to work. Because MinTTY is a standard Windows application, it closes this backdoor.

7. Closes even when programs are backgrounded

Open a fresh Cygwin and type notepad & followed by exit. The Cygwin console sticks open until you close Notepad.

In MinTTY, you can always close the window, no matter how many background processes you've started.

8. Alt-F2 opens a new terminal window

Pure convenience: Alt-F2 opens a new terminal. No need to reach for the mouse.

9. Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown!

For rapidly paging through previous lines of output, you can press Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown, just like the Linux console. Another huge convenience.

Since I discovered Git, I was bothered by the really (REALLY!) stupid bash window. Why is it stupid? Try to paste something in that window! You have to click on the title bar, edit, paste. So I searched for an alternative. I found Console 2 and Mintty. Right now I’ll show you how to use Mintty by default, instead of that ugly and user not-so friendly default bash shell.

Requirements

First of all, you will need… Cygwin. You need to install chere package as well. After that, open a bash prompt and type: chere -i.
Second, you need to download Mintty and extract mintty.exe into cygwin/bin directory.
Third (and last) step is to open regedit (press win+r key then type regedit), go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesDirectoryshellcygwin_bashcommand, edit default key and replace its content with:

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Please change cygwin path according to your instalation.

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You are done! Just right click on a folder and click on Bash prompt here. A nice mintty console will open. Enjoy!

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