Usable environment on Windows 7

usable_win7.md

Usable environment on Windows 7

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Softwares

• Google Chrome
  • Alt. SRWare Iron
• Mozilla Firefox
  • Alt. Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
• Cygwin
• gVim Portable
• MiKTeX Portable
• PuTTY
• PuTTY Pageant
• WinSCP Portable
• VLC Portable

Cygwin setup

Additional software to select during install

• bash-completion
• clang
• gcc-core
• gcc-g++
• git
• git-completion
• mingw-gcc-core
• mingw-gcc-g++
• python3
• rsync
• ssh-pageant

Terminal emulator options

• Text
  • Font: Courier New, 16-point
  • Locale: en_US
  • Character set: UTF-8

.bashrc additions

cat >> ~/.bashrc <<EOF

# Locale
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

# PuTTY pageant (SSH agent) integration
eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -ra $TEMP/.ssh-pageant)

EOF