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

Hi Vadim,

On 4/13/2026 7:27 PM, Vadim (vadcx) wrote:
> On 4/13/26 15:44, Philippe Cloutier wrote:
>
> 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.


I suppose you're not familiar with # apt purge; 
https://kitson-consulting.co.uk/blog/apt-dpkg-purge-rc-packages
It's designed to not just remove a package, but the configuration it 
created. chere is just a configuration script; if you just remove the 
script, you're still left with any configuration it installed. 
Reinstalling also doesn't help.

# apt purge; is designed to let you start from scratch, but I just 
looked and I'm afraid Cygwin does not offer purging.

Thankfully, chere features -u, which allows to remove the entries 
(undo). But as I reported, that's not helping.


>   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.


Right (by the way, the synopsis does not document that switch).

> I didn't really touch any core logic in my patches and was very careful.


To be clear, I was not accusing you of causing any regression. All I am 
saying is that I can't confirm patch 3/4 has any beneficial effect. I 
hope it helps if one starts with 1.4-3, but from what I can see on a 
system which started on 1.4-1, it leaves everything as it was, 
regardless of what you do.

I can't afford to debug this myself, but if you want more information, 
I'm available via Google Chat, Signal or WhatsApp (+1-418-945-2029) and 
I can connect to Libera.Chat if you want.