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How to open files from cygwin into Visual Studio

James Young — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:02:03 +0000

Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two tools. Well, one, but two will be available on the command line.

The main tool you now have is devenv, which allows you to do all sorts of things. type devenv /? to see all the things you can do with it.

We are interested in devenv filename /edit. I would prefer to just type the filename, and not need to type /edit everytime. The alias devedit takes care of this for us. So, you can do devenv whatever to have access to all the features that tool gives you, and you can do devedit filename to quickly open up the file in your existing Visual Studio session. If there is no session running, it will start one up.

How to open a window from terminal in cygwin on vista

James Young — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:42:11 +0000

So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used a mac forever, I found myself missing the ‘open’ command that you can do from Terminal (on the mac) to pop open a window from the directory you are in.

With a quick search, I found that someone else already figured this out, so I am going to post my version of it here:

In your .bash_profile, add this:

alias open="cygstart \$1"

Then in mintty (or any cygwin terminal) you can cd to where ever you want, then just do ‘open [path]‘ and it will pop open a windows window for [path].

Examples:

open current directory: $ open .
open home directory : $ open ~
open program files: $ open ~/c/Program\ Files

Note: that last one assumes you have made a symlink in your home to /cygdrive/c/

$ cd ~; ln -s /cygdrive/c

Here is the original thread that I found this tip in:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00632.html

There are a few solutions posted, my favorite is:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00635.html

My .vimrc

James Young — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:13:26 +0000

" vim 7.x specific
 
" set to be more vim like
set nocompatible
 
" check paths for .ros alternatives
set includeexpr=substitute(v:fname,'$','.ros','g')
 
" hide buffers when they go away with :bd
set hidden
 
" set tabs
set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
set cindent
 
" window management
set number
set ruler
set showmode
set laststatus=2
set history=500
set cursorline
au WinLeave * set nocursorline
au WinEnter * set cursorline
 
" search
set incsearch
set hlsearch
set smartcase
 
" colors
syntax on
colorscheme desert
set showmatch
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.ros set filetype=php
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.js.ros set filetype=javascript
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.css.ros set filetype=css
highlight Comment ctermfg=6 
highlight Folded ctermfg=7 ctermbg=0
highlight LineNr ctermfg=6 ctermbg=0
 
" misc
set title
set sc
 
" use wildmenu
set wildmenu
set wildmode=list:longest,full
set wildignore+=*.0,*.class,*.pyc,*.pyo,*/CVS/,*.jar
 
" turn word wrap off
set nowrap
 
" get the backup files in ~/.tmp/
"#set backupdir=~/.tmp/
"set directory=~/.tmp/
 
" folding
set foldmethod=marker
 
" If I remember correctly this makes C-k look up things in php_doc
set keywordprg=/[path to]/php_doc
 
" hide the mouse while typing
set mousehide

My .screenrc

James Young — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:24:19 +0000

This .screenrc has a bunch of commented out lines that I don’t use, but I know if I delete them, I will need them for some reason and wish I didn’t.

# Use CTRL- as the escape sequence instead of CTRL-A
# this seems to only work on certain machines
escape '^@^@'
 
# Use ` as the escape sequence instead of CTRL-A
#escape ``
 
# Once you learn to use the screen scrollback, you'll never scroll in terminal again!
defscrollback 20000
 
# Aesthetic Stuff
vbell off
hardstatus alwayslastline
 
hardstatus string "%{gk}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{wk}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m/%d %{W}%c %{g}]"
#hardstatus string '%{= kc}%H%{g} %{kw}%?%-Lw%?%{W}%n%f%t%?(%u)%?%{w}%?%+Lw%?%=%{c}%m/%d %C %{w}%l%'
#hardstatus string '%{= cK}%-Lw%{= KW}%50>%n%f* %t%{= cK}%+Lw%< %{= kG}%-=%D %d %M %Y %c:%s%{-}'
#hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m/%d %{W}%c %{g}]'
 
# Rebind PuTTY  (127) backspace to 
bindkey -k kD stuff ^H
 
# Rebind PuTTY  to 
#bindkey "^[[3~" stuff ^[OC^H
 
term xterm-color
setenv SCREEN_TERM screen
startup_message off
 
#termcapinfo  xterm Z0=\E[?3h:Z1=\E[?3l:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l
#termcapinfo  xterm-color Z0=\E[?3h:Z1=\E[?3l:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l

My .ssh/config

James Young — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:16:02 +0000

Sorry, this has to be edited for security reasons…

Host [hostname1] [hostname2] [hostname3]
    ProxyCommand ssh [hostname] /usr/local/bin/nc -w 5 %h %p
 
Host [hostname1] [hostname2] [hostname3] 
    Compression yes
 
# defaults
Host *
    Protocol 2,1
    PubkeyAuthentication yes
    RSAAuthentication yes
    PasswordAuthentication yes
    PreferredAuthentications publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
    ForwardAgent yes
    ForwardX11 no
    ServerAliveCountMax 3
    ServerAliveInterval 600
 
Host [hostname]
HostName [ip address]
    Port [port number]
    User [username]

My .bash_profile

James Young — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:11:10 +0000

.bash_profile, .profile, .bash_rc …

if [ "$PS1" != "" ]; then
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    PS1="[\e[1;33m\u::${HOSTNAME} \t\[\e[1;35m\e[0m\]]$ "
fi
 
alias ls='ls -G'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ll -a'
alias env='env | sort'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias :e=vim
alias grepr='grep -rHn'
# finds and removes the ._ files that textmate creates
alias findmatefiles='find . -name ._*'
alias rmmatefiles='find . -name ._* -exec rm {} \;'
 
export DEVROOT=~/dev/
export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history
export HISTSIZE=5000
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin:/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:/home/y/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/y/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:.
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
 
setenv () { export $1="$2"; }
unsetenv () { unset $*; }