- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12193020/file-mode-with-msysgit
- https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
$ git config core.filemode false
Category: Microsoft Windows
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Git, Windows, and how to deal with file mode problems
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EmacsWiki: NTEmacs With Cygwin
This is great!!!
Now I can do “Search Files…” in Emacs’s dired-mode again — just like “everywhere”.
How to get it to start in the user’s home directory? Create a shortcut for runemacs.exe, move it to AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ ! Modify the properties of that shorcut accordingly!
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Oracle SQL Developer – how to run it on Windows in English w/o admin rights?
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7768313/how-can-i-change-the-language-to-english-in-oracle-sql-developer
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/24532448/3119172
I chose the approach “set language at runtime“:
sqldeveloper.exe --AddVMOption=-Duser.language=enWorks like a charm.
On the Win7 PC at work I have no admin rights, therefore I cannot change the config file mentioned in the thread.
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Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer for Microsoft Windows
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals/tag/process-explorer/
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/downloads/process-utilities
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
N.B.: Running this utility does not require admin privileges.
Allows you to search for files / directories opened by process / applications.
E.g. I had started Excel today, and it “operated” in some directory. I ended Excel, at least I thought so – but it kept running (in “stealth mode”), and it kept “locking” that directory. And when I attempted to remove that directory in Explorer, Explorer wouldn’t let me do so. But of course Explorer did not tell me, who locked that directory. Process Explorer let me search for that directory using a partial name (substring of the full directory name) and identify the process / application in question. That way I got hold of Excel, ended that for real, and eventually I was able to remove that directory. Hurray!
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my 2017 Windows working environment
All these packages resp. utilities do not require Windows admin rights for getting them “installed” – actually they do not need “a Windows system installation”.
Below C:\Users\jhayek I created a couple of subdirectories:
- opt: every package resp. utility has its own subdirectory below there
- bin: some .bat and .sh (BusyBox ash) scripts go there
Packages resp. utilities:
- GNU Emacs
- busybox-w32: includes a shell and a lot of Unix utilities
- Strawberry Perl
- https://ConEmu.github.io — a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse 😎
- xmlstarlet
After having worked with this set-up for a couple of days, I have to admit: this is not just a minimalist Unix-ish working environment, but it is rather enjoyable working environment. I do not have the GNU utilities with all their advantages (nice long command line options and lots of features) – but for most purposes the utilities built into busybox-w32 are good enough for my purposes. What a great idea it was to think of “busybox for Windows” a couple of days ago – and actually find “busybox-w32”!!! I had to consider a lightweight alternative of Cygwin, because on my new client’s Windows computers it’s not available.
ConEmu makes busybox-w32 and its shell (the “ash”) even more enjoyable.
GNU Emacs is as good as always – I can’t really describe how sad it is to not have it available in a serious working environment.
Strawberry Perl so far has all the modules, that my utilities need. I am really glad to have that “distribution”.
xmlstarlet is my XPath and XML Swiss Army Knife.
With all these utilities and packages available it’s even quite fun to work on Windows 7 😆
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Microsoft Sysinternals “Autologon for Windows” — yet another nice utility
Autologon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. Instead of waiting for a user to enter their name and password, Windows uses the credentials you enter with Autologon, which are encrypted in the Registry, to log on the specified user automatically.
Autologon is easy enough to use. Just run autologon.exe, fill in the dialog, and hit Enable. To turn off auto-logon, hit Disable. Also, if the shift key is held down before the system performs an autologon, the autologon will be disabled for that logon. You can also pass the username, domain and password as command-line arguments: …
Quite useful for a machine running a Jenkins agent.
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I diffed (GNU diffutils) two “.rdp” files (UTF-16), and I falsely got the impression these utilities properly deal with Unicode
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol — originally from the Windows world RDP “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection“
- http://www.donkz.nl/files/rdpsettings.html — a(n) “.rdp” file keeps settings to start an RDP connection — because Emacs opens such files as text files, I had no idea they are not “classic” text files, instead (according to the GNU “file” command) they are “little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with CRLF, CR line terminators” (at least the ones created by Windows’ “Remote Desktop Connection” software; I converted one of them to plain ASCII, and even through this one Windows still opened the connection properly)
My next “mistake” was to naively “
diff” two “.rdp” files and to overcome some initial problem by passing “--text” to “diff“, and then “diff” showed exactly what I expected:- https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Binary.html — GNU diffutils’ “
--text” makes diff “treat all files as text“
The respective work environment is Win7, and I am using GNU diffutils etc as part of Cygwin.
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nicer Windows terminals: ConEmu, Console2
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Microsoft Sysinternals: Process Monitor — yet another fine Sysinternals utility
- https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 — their “Process Monitor” — requires admin privileges
- https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 — their “Process Explorer” — I have been using that utility so far, and I quite like it
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startup PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” with private keys
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pageant.exe – an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ssh-agent
PuTTY’s authentication agent pageant combines the functionality of ssh-agent and ssh-add, and if you start it up, it makes sense to add the necessary private keys on its command line. You can do this using a script, but in Windows it’s convenient to does this through a “.lnk” shortcut. And if you place that “.lnk” file in Windows’ user startup directory, you won’t forget to start it manually.
Here is a nice description of how to make “… Pageant automatically load keys on startup“:
Basically:
- let all your private keys live in one directory!
- make this directory the one to “Start in:” (that’s a property of the “.lnk” file)!
- and name the private keys (where you pass them to Pageant) w/o the directory.
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-app-to-run-automatically-at-startup-in-windows-10-150da165-dcd9-7230-517b-cf3c295d89dd – Win 10
Recipe (Win <10):
- within your Windows auto-start-up folder (Start > All Programs > Startup — right-click > Open) …
- create a Windows “shortcut” to Pageant.exe, it gets called pageant.exe.lnk!
- edit the shortcut’s properties!
- tell the command line, where to “Start in:“!
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\puttyor%USERPROFILE%\etc\putty(that’s where you created resp. left your private keys using PuTTYgen) - add the private keys on the command line within “Target:” (
YOUR.ppk)– and the paths may be relative to the directory you mentioned in “Start in:“
Recipe (…):
- %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup/ : Pageant.lnk
- …
It’s helpful to dump the details of pageant.exe.lnk using one of these nice tools:
- http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2017/12/06/cygwin-cygutils-readshortcut/
- http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2017/12/06/pylnker/ – refers you to a Python and a Perl tool
PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” has its counterparts in: ssinf h-agent + ssh-add