nano for git bash 🔗

(url: http://www.pitt.edu/~naraehan/ling1340/Lecture11.pdf)

• Download nano for windows:
• Rename it nano-git.exe
• Place it under /usr/bin
  • This is likely C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin if you installed git with default settings
• Create a script file called nano (without file extension!) in the same /usr/bin/ directory. Put two lines:

  #!/bin/sh
  START //WAIT nano-git.exe "$@"

• You can now launch nano editor by simply calling 'nano' or 'nano foo.txt'.

Setting up X11 forwarding from engineering computers 🔗

1. Download X11 client for windows:
   • Xming
2. Set DISPLAY environmental variable for Xming

   echo export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 >> ~/.bash_profile
   source ~/.bash_profile

3. Login to gate and do port forwarding:

   ssh -Y -L localhost:2222:ts-access:22 ckl41@gate.eng.cam.ac.uk

4. Login to ts-access through the port forwarding (in another git bash window)

    ssh -Y -p 2222 ckl41@localhost

5. Launch an X program to check!

   xterm
   xclock

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