Using lf (indispensable to me) on a Windows 10 machine using Cygwin

[dav...@gmail.com]

Hi,

  I HAVE to get lf running on a Windows machine. I'm lost without it on Widnoze! I've tried all kinds of ways to get it to load the right shell and configure, but I'm stumped. So I have a Windows 10 latest build, and I installed Cygwin on it since I need gcc. But my lf crashes -- here's the log:

2018/11/02 14:27:40 hi!

2018/11/02 14:27:40 reading file: C:\ProgramData\lf\lfrc

2018/11/02 14:27:40 shell: ${{ mkdir -p $HOME/.trash }} -- []

2018/11/02 14:27:40 running shell: exit status 1

2018/11/02 14:27:40 loading files: []

it also prints The syntax of the command is incorrect.

Part of my lfrc:

# Some systems use more efficient shell implementations for non-interactive use

# (e.g. `dash`) mapped to `/bin/sh`. By setting this option here we can tell

# `lf` to use this implementation for shell commands. This can decrease the

# startup times of commands but may also change the syntax that you are used to

# (e.g. non-POSIX features provided by your regular shell).

#set shell E:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe

(nothing here seems to work in trying to add the path to the /bin/bash in cygwin)

# Set previewer to highlight via preview.sh (in this directory):

#set previewer highlight.exe

(same here -- I can't get it to read a preview.sh and execute it)

Is there ANYONE that has done this? I can't believe I'm the first. What do other usually do to install lf on Windows?

Thanks,

Dave Mazzoni

[Gokcehan Kara]

Hi Dave,

As far as I'm aware, Go does not officially support cygwin so things may or may not work correctly. In addition, termbox applications are rare compared to ncurses applications so I would not be surprised if no one has tried to make those work on cygwin so far. I don't have cygwin installed currently so I can't say for sure.

I think WSL may be a better option nowadays:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

I have ubuntu18.04 installed on my windows machine and 64bit linux binary seems to work without a problem.

Of course another option is to use the native windows binary if you are able to work with cmd.exe or powershell.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Gokcehan

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