Question

I don’t want to type /cygdrive/c/path/to/stuff, especially when using tools that don’t know anything about cygwin. Is there a way to configure cygwin to autocomplete ‘c:\path\to\stuff’ or even ‘c:/path/to/stuff’?

Answer 1

For tools that can’t understand cygwin paths, you’ll need to convert them to windows paths. The cygpath utility can do this for you:

notepad $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/path/to/stuff) 

You can probably create aliases or wrapper scripts for commonly-used windows executables.