Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

Chris Wagner wagnerc@plebeian.com
Thu Jun 6 15:52:00 GMT 2019


It won't work if the terminal window was started in administrator mode.  
Something to do with Windows's security isolation.



On 2019-06-06 12:26 am, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to google for this but couldn't find anyone with the same 
> problem.
> I'm using mintty 3.0.1 and cygwin 3.0.7(0.338/5/3).
> 
> On my previous computer, if I dragged a file from my explorer to the 
> cygwin
> terminal, the cygwin terminal used to be populated with the full path 
> to
> that file.  Now when I do this, the cygwin terminal isn't affected.


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