For those of you who use Cygwin to make Windows slightly more bearable…
Suppose you’re happily working in a Cygwin window, and you need to load one of the files you’re working on into a Windows app. You could select File > Open… in the app and then browse to the ten-levels-deep Cygwin folder to find the file you need, or instead you could put this in your .bashrc:
e() { explorer $(cygpath -w $(pwd)) & }
Then, in the Cygwin window, just type “e <ENTER>”, and an Explorer window will pop up, opened to the current directory. You can now double-click on the file, open it from the right-click menu, or drag and drop into a running app.
