Using Mintty and a few other methods, you could make the experience much more luxurious.
If you useMSYS/MinGWinstead of Cygwin, Mintty works beautifully with that, too.
), or you might just runCygwin’s Setup.exe fileagain.
At the Select Packages screen, look under “Shells” and find Mintty.
Click where it says “Skip” and hit the Next button.
Head over to the Text tab when you’re done that.
Lastly, hit Window.
By default, Shift+Up/Down will scroll through the buffer in the window.
Now here’s what my modified Mintty configuration looks like.
(press the above image to see a larger version.)
However, if you don’t want to set up SSH access, there’s an easier way.
There’s aKiTTY-compatible PuTTYcfg patchwhich adds this functionality for others like me.
Do you have a preferred Cygwin shell?
Do you have an alternative to Cygwin?
Know of a patch that works with PuTTY 0.61?
Let us know below!
