Re: Bash Prompt Here opening in Windows Console/Terminal on chere 1.4-3

On 4/13/26 15:44, Philippe Cloutier wrote:

> I expected that upgrading from 1.4-1 to 1.4-3 would help, but it did
> not, even after I performed the 2 attempts to "reset" my system (get rid
> of traces from 1.4-1) which I described.

> Sorry, I wanted to report but I am too busy to debug further. All I can
> say is that the output I provided is representative of what happens.
> Everything tells me the registry didn't improve since 1.4-1. It seems
> “stuck” there. "C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe" -c "/bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe
> 'C:\Users\cheal\Downloads'"
> 
> One thing I did not try is to uninstall the chere package. Let me know
> too if Cygwin has a purge command I should try too.
> 

chere is a very dumb script (-> opposite of smart). All it really does
to add a context menu is achieved by writing a specific registry key. No
understanding of what's there and no sanity checking. Quite fragile in
my opinion (old code...).

Therefore there's no reason to purge or reinstall anything. Either the
registry entry is there or it is not. You can see what it wants to
insert in the registry during "installation" with -p:

> p - Print regtool commands to stdout rather than running them

and then navigate there with regedit.exe to see for yourself.

I didn't really touch any core logic in my patches and was very careful.
I didn't know they would be accepted (thanks Mark!), so there's more
work to be done and your report shows it.

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Cheers,
Vadim