64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package.
Mintty as a terminal for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
In mintty, you can do that using the sequence Alt+ F3. More information in the mintty Searching in the text and scrollback buffer Alt-F3 opens a search bar with an input field for a search string.
Matches are highlighted in the scrollback buffer. Enter/Shift+Enter find the next/previous position of the match and scrolls the scrollback buffer accordingly. The appearance of the search bar and the matching highlight colours can be customized. Beware this sequence is very close to the infamous windows sequence that closes a window. (which uses F4) Alternatively, you can enable the Ctrl+ Shift+ H shortcut by going into the options pane of mintty and enabling Ctrl+ Shift+ letters shortcuts in the Key section of the options. You access the options pane by right-clicking the mintty icon of the mintty window (upper left corner). (Mintty) I'd mucked up an rsync command (wrong direction) so I wanted to track which files had been altered.
So I manually selected the Mintty screen output from the bottom with my mouse hold left mouse button and then push to top of the screen and then tediously waited while the screen scrolled forever backwards then when I'd gone back as far as I needed I did a Control-Insert to copy. I then pasted into a text file which I could then search, edit, grep, vim to my hearts content. Don't know if this the only way but it works!