Thank you very much Raniere! I tried it, and...
+ Cygwin Terminal icon on the Desktop (aka, bash)
+ man -- pages for nano, bash, man, make, git, rsync, even python
(ver 2.7.13)
+ nano
+ git -- tested git init, add, commit clone from GitHub via https
+ ssh works from the bash command line, presumably will work with
ssh keys when they get put in the right place.
+ python 2.7.13
/home/<user> is not the same as C:\Users\<user>, but the latter can be
reached as c:/users/<user> (or C:/Users/<user>) which will take you to
c:/cygdrive/c/users.
If the user tries to install as a non-administrator, the PowerShell
window prints
Press Enter to exit:
but if you authenticate as an admin, it then adds
Hand installation over to elevated child process
That might be added to the documentation.
I created a file, 'foo' with nano, then from the bash command line
$ notepad foo
and it opens the right file. That's a nice out and a nice integration
for those who really feel uncomfortable using nano. Since
c:/cygwin/home/<user> is the home directory for bash, it's also easily
findable from Windows.
I know people who do real work from Cygwin, so this is also something
that users can take with them, expand by adding additional packages,
and work with on a regular basis. Cygwin has pretty good
documentation, and Google will find answers to many questions.
I hope others receive this work as warmly as I have.
Once again, very nicely done,
Sincerely, -- bennet
P.S. Now, if you can just write a little something to get my mouse
pointer to move from my Mac to my Windows laptop when I hit the edge
of the screen hard enough.... :-)
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Raniere Silva <rani...@rgaiacs.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks for all comments!
>
>> If you’re interested in more information about instructor preferences and
>> possible solutions
>> for the second concern (text editors for the shell lesson), you will find
>> this issue of interest
>> [2] and we hope you will continue to add comments there.
>>
>> For now, the Windows installer isn't working, so while we're working to fix
>> that, we'll add
>> instructions for using Atom in a workshop. If you are an instructor teaching
>> the shell lesson
>> soon and are comfortable using Atom (and helping your students get it
>> installed!), please try
>> it out and add to this issue [3] to let us know how it worked. We'll get in
>> touch with people
>> teaching upcoming workshops to let them know about this issue and potential
>> solutions.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/shell-novice/issues/542
>> [2] https://github.com/carpentries/conversations/issues/11
>> [3] https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/issues/390
>
> If you prefer to use nano as the text editor
> I will ask you to spend 10-20 minutes reviewing
> https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/391.
> I spent a few hours working on it
> and from my test, at a Windows 10 virtual machine,
> it work OK.
>
> Thanks,
> Raniere
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