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0 pointssevensor9y ago0 comments

> vim inside of mintty (that comes with downloading git),

Is git for windows using msys2 yet? If not, do yourself a favor and start using msys2 instead. It has packages for git and vim, and it uses pacman for pacage management. I've had a great experience using it.

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grimgrin9y ago· 2 in thread

This looks really promising. Thanks. And Git for windows is using mintty, which is a terminal emulator for cygwin, msys, and msys2, but I'm not really sure what is being provided/used. A buncha unix tools and definitely not a package manager.

And for those unaware:

> MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

> The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.

> We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's Pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system - makepkg{,-mingw} - which is used to make these packages

Also: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25023611/463678

Github: https://msys2.github.io/

sevensorOP9y ago

Msys2 also has mintty, and I can attest that tmux works great, if that's a consideration. This is pretty much where I spend my days (Msys2 / mintty / tmux / vim) when I have to work in Windows.

grimgrin9y ago

Is there a popular convention for using something like this or cygwin, in that it has its own $HOME, and I have a buncha dotfiles in my Windows user home?

Possibly just symlinking it all over to MSYS $HOME?

I am definitely happy about being able to install tmux.

edit: just seems like I should ditch what I was doing in windows home, because git bash used the same home and I had everything there. ssh stuff, git config, inputrc, .vim, etc. But if I'm no longer using git bash, no need.

edit: sadly git runs very oddly in this. not sure what git bash is doing differently, but I'm comparing .64 seconds for a git status, versus over a minute with MSY2. weird.

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