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

Academy OfFetishes academyoffetishes@gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 16:21:00 GMT 2019


Yeah I ran this code, and it spit out "user":

https://superuser.com/a/1102643/89165

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Academy OfFetishes <
academyoffetishes@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it's started in administrator mode.  At least, it doesn't
> ask me to run in administrator mode when I start my terminal.
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 8:52 AM Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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