To set bash up so that cut and paste work properly, click on the "Properties" button of the window, then on the "Misc" tab. Make sure that "Quick Edit" is checked and "Fast Pasting" isn't. These settings will be remembered next time you run bash from that shortcut. Similarly you can set the working directory inside the "Program" tab. The entry "%HOME%" is valid.
Your home directory should contain three initialization files that control the behavior of bash. They are .profile, .bashrc and .inputrc. These initialization files will only be read if HOME is defined before starting bash.
.profile (other names are also valid, see the bash man page) contains bash commands. It is executed when bash is started as login shell, e.g. from the command bash --login (the provided .bat file does not set the switch). This is a useful place to define and export environment variables and bash functions that will be used by bash and the programs invoked by bash. It is a good place to redefine PATH if needed. We recommend adding a ":." to the end of PATH to also search the current working directory (contrary to DOS, the local directory is not searched by default). Also to avoid delays you should either unset MAILCHECK or define MAILPATH to point to your existing mail inbox.
.bashrc is similar to .profile but is executed each time an interactive bash shell is launched. It serves to define elements that are not inherited through the environment, such as aliases. If you do not use login shells, you may want to put the contents of .profile as discussed above in this file instead.
shopt -s nocaseglob |
.inputrc controls how programs using the readline library (including bash) behave. It is loaded automatically. The full details are in the readline.info. Due to a bug in the current readline version, .inputrc cannot contain \r, even on text mounted systems. Consider the following settings:
# Make Bash 8bit clean set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on # Ignore case while completing set completion-ignore-case on |