Ctrl + click
doesn't work with my mintty, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Anyway, I've learned some trick from Pragmatistic Guy and made small modification to accomplish what you want more elegently. I'll copy his solution here and all credits belongs to him.
To ensure this script only run under cygwin, you may add platform detection commands to your ~/.bashrc
:
if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu" ]]; then
echo "Linux-gnu environment detected."
elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "cygwin" ]]; then
echo "Cygwin environment detected."
if [ -f "${HOME}/.bashrc.cygwin" ]; then
source "${HOME}/.bashrc.cygwin"
fi
else
echo "Unknown Platform"
fi
Now add following script to ~/.bashrc.cygwin
:
function xpl {
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
XPATH=. # Open current directory in default
else
XPATH=$1
XPATH="$(cygpath -C ANSI -w "$XPATH")";
fi
explorer $XPATH
}
You can now call xpl dir_name_or_file_name
to make windows open directory/file with default program.
explorer.exe
won't block your shell input, isn't that perfect?