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Cygwin: Using programs already installed in Windows?
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I just installed Cygwin and I'm a bit confused about how it works. I see I have a "home" folder in . I've already installed and set up Mercurial, Vim, Git, etc. on my Windows machine using their respective installers. How do I let Cygwin use those programs, and also their config files (_vimrc, etc.…
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C:\cygwin\home
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Cygwin is intended primarily to provide a Linux-like environment on top of Windows. It works best with programs that are compiled for Cygwin. It can work directly with native Windows programs, but you have to be careful. One feature of Cygwin is tha…
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