更改Git-Bash中的目录：在Windows机器上使用MINGW64中的Windows样式目录地址

Question

Question:

git-bash.exe , or MINGW64 , recognizes cd commands for directories whose addresses are given in form of: /Drive_Name/Folder1/Subfolder1 . An example for changing to home dir for a Windows machine users is: cd /c/users/USERNAME .

• Is it possible to use the following syntax? cd c:\\users\\USERNAME Note, the directory address is given in its "native" format: the syntax for which the Windows OS recognizes.

• Alternatively, is there a way to automatically change all the backward slashes into forward slashes when pasting into the Git-bash window?

Background

I am using git-bash.exe on a daily basis: to pull and push to Github, to run latexmk for compiling my *.tex documents and to SSH my Linux machines. It would be nice to quickly start a git-bash.exe process at the desired directory location. And, when on Windows OS, getting addresses in form of C:\\users\\USERNAME\\project is the default.

Assortment of syntax that git-bash.exe likes:

• Format 1: the format native to GNU --- /c/users/USERNAME ;
• Format 2: semi-Windows OS format ==> use forward slash as divider --- c:/users/USERNAME ;
• Format 3: semi-Windows OS format ==> use TWO backward slashes as divider --- c:\\\\users\\\\USERNAME (credits: @VonC )

Alternatively (pending solutions)

A valid alternative is to have some third-party process to monitor the clipboard, and switch all the backward backward slashes into forward slashes. In my case, this could happen:

1. [Solved] In Vim , when I use the following mapping to fetch the "parent directory" of the file: nnoremap <leader><leader>p :let @* = expand("%:p:h")<CR>

   • Solution: set shellslash , see "tentative solution" for more details.

2. Though some clipboard-monitor/recording apps: to simply recognize that the string being assigned to the system clipboard is an address for a folder/directory, and replace all backward slashes to be forward slashes.

Answer 1

Tentative solution through Vim

In .vimrc (or _vimrc for Windows), use setting: set shellslash , and use the following mapping to copy the addresses:

• Absolute directory to the file:

  nnoremap <leader><leader>f :let @* = expand("%:p")<CR>

• Absolute directory to the parent folder:

  nnoremap <leader><leader>p :let @* = expand("%:p:h")<CR>

• Ref: Is it possible to make vim use forward slashes on windows?

• Other mappings that are helpful:

   " File Name only, without extension nnoremap <leader><leader>n :let @* = expand("%:t:r")<CR> " Extension. nnoremap <leader><leader>e :let @* = expand("%:t:e")<CR> " Copy the line number with file name nnoremap <leader><leader>l :let @* = expand("%:p").":".line(".")<CR> 

Explanation

What this solution builds on are:

1. git-bash.exe 's ability to recognize addresses of the following form: c:/users/USERNAME/document , where the forward slashes are used as divider.

2. Vim's native function expand("%:p") (with other flags) that can copy directory-info to clipboard.

Answer 2

Is it possible to use the following syntax?

cd c:\users\USERNAME

I just tried with the latest Git 2.13.3 bash: it works, but I had to type:

cd c:\\users\\USERNAME