include zsh and tmux from cygwin

[prabirshrestha]

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[mickaelandrieu]

👍 cmder with zsh <3

ping @Bliker is this hard ? I can do it if you help me a little bit

[rbhalla]

+1

[MartiUK]

See the wiki page about integrating cygwin and thus zsh & tmux.

[mickaelandrieu]

This is not a closed issue, the main idea is not "how to integrate zsh and cygwin", but about a complete support of zsh out of box.

Please, re-open this @MartiUK , if I misunderstood the point I will open a new issue.

[MartiUK]

@mickaelandrieu I'm trying to keep cmder as a basic platform for people to add things onto it, I don't want to distribute anything other than the basics (cmd, powershell for example). As I put into the contributing.md, it might be useful for you and for what you're doing but for the other 1000s of people using cmder it will just be wasted space/download.

[mickaelandrieu]

Ok. Thanks for your answer.

[Jackbennett]

You could possibly look at using your own sources.json that includes what you need to incorporate the zsh task in conemu.

There's been some talk about including chocolatey, would that help you get the packages you need? When PSv5 ships it will probably have what we need natively.

[mickaelandrieu]

I think we need more a wiki to help integrate the packages we need than a complete "big" cmder.
For now I work on gnu/linux OS but with vagrant and cmder, Windows can be a good solution for a web developper.
I don't have time to investigate more on this, but if a tutorial exists I can test it on windows 7/8 :)

[MartiUK]

@mickaelandrieu I have recently made a guide on the wiki to integrate cygwin, you can use zsh + tmux through that?

[mickaelandrieu]

@MartiUK I will take a look to the guide asap, thank you :)

[UltCombo]

@MartiUK after following your tutorial, I just had to change cygwin.bat to run zsh -l -i instead of bash --login -i, as described in this Super User answer.
Thanks!

[mickaelandrieu]

@UltCombo I have installed zsh through apt-cyg but when I put your command into cygwin.bat, cygwin is unable to find zsh... any idea ?

[UltCombo]

Oh, I had already installed zsh via Oh My Zsh.

[dcbishop]

You can also bypass the bat file and start it via "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /bin/zsh --login" although is uses mintty instead of the regular terminal renderer. The integration via xhere instructions seem to messup my fancy prompt making it double width (it autoexpands to fill a line).