Cygwin tips

All tips assume you installed Cygwin at C:\cygwin

Use rxvt instead of dos command prompt

Change your cygwin.bat to

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

rxvt -e bash --login -i

Customize rxvt

Create a file in your home directory named .Xdefaults

rxvt*foreground:white
rxvt*background:black
rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14
rxvt*scrollBar_right: true

Other rxvt options can be found here.

Fix Home, End, Delete, and Insert keys

Put this into ~/.inputrc

# Home Key
"\e[7~":beginning-of-line

# End Key
"\e[8~":end-of-line

# Delete Key
"\e[3~":delete-char

# Insert Key
"\e[2~":paste-from-clipboard

Then add this to ~/.bashrc

export INPUTRC=$HOME/.inputrc