Right-click "Bash Here" Shortcut in Context Menu for MSYS2 MINGW32/64 shell

These are all the configuration files needed to add "bash here" options in the Windows right-click shortcut/context menu. The menu options will be made available for both right-click on a folder background and right-click on a folder.

This implementation should work for MSYS2 and MINGW32/64 shells that come with MSYS2.

Usage

Make sure the environment variable $HOME exists and points to /home/<userid> from your MSYS2/bash console. To test this, open an MSYS2/bash console, and type and run this command: echo $HOME. If it prints a valid path, the variable exists with a valid value. If it does not print a path, you need to fix up your install to include a $HOME environment variable (out of scope of this document). This is needed because this script will use $HOME/.bash_profile. Then, from an MSYS2/bash console, run these commands:
From a directory into which you want to clone the direcotry of this repository: git clone <full URL of this repository>
cd <folder of this repository>
./install and follow the instructions
(Optional) double-click install_right_click_menu.reg file to merge it into your windows registry if not automatically merged by the install script.
(Optional) If you don't see icons in the context menu, please install msys2-launcher via pacman (pacman -S msys/msys2-launcher-git) or from source https://github.com/elieux/msys2-launcher

Note (Manually add Context Menu shortcuts)

Double-click install_right_click_menu.reg and follow the Registry Editor prompts.

Note (Manually remove Context Menu shortcuts)

Double-click uninstall_right_click_menu.reg and follow the Registry Editor prompts.

Notes

This script does not depend on cygpath.
If you are using zsh, copy reg_aio_zsh_msys2_shell_example.template into you MSYS2 install directory, rename it to msys2_shell_zsh.cmd, and edit it as appropriate. You will need to change TEMPLATE_SHELL in the install script to zsh.
If you are using MSYS2 with a filesystem newer than 2016.05-2, this script will only generate one .reg file, which is all you need to create this context menu. You can delete this directory after merging the .reg file.

Notes (For msys2 version with start_shell.cmd)

For the MSYS2 version with start_shell.cmd, the script will use bash_here_start_shell.template for generating bash scripts.
You must have the environment variable $HOME defined as your home directory path.
To use a shell other than bash (e.g. to use zsh), you might want to create a start_shell_zsh.cmd and (mingw*/msys2)_shell_zsh.bat. Then, you will need to modify either the template or the bash script generated to call the corresponding batch file.

License

The MIT License (MIT) 2015 Yifei Zhang

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