Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:37:51 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 8/12/2013 4:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Perhaps surprisingly though, I don't actually use ls on windows -
> > but that's only because the win version doesn't give much (any?)
> > visual distinction of directories vs files. Instead, I stuck an
> > "ls.bat" in my windows directory that invokes "dir /w %*". Probably
> > my #1 most used command, aside from maybe cd.
> 
> You can set the default switches that DIR uses by setting the DIRCMD
> environment variable:
> 
>      set DIRCMD=/w
> 

Cool, didn't know that. But typing "ls" quickly became second nature to
me back when I started learning unix, and then I kept instinctively
trying to type it whenever I came back to windows (this despite being
primarily a windows guy). So I just made typing "ls" actually work. ;)

I keep trying to type "cp" on windows, too. I'm hesitant to make that
one work though, or to put gnu's "cp" on my PATH, because I'm sure I'd
end up slipping "cp" into my distributed batch files without thinking.

> I use:
> 
>      set DIRCMD=/O:D/P

Yea, I used to use /P, too. Back in the MS-DOS/Win3.1 days, I had a
"wdir.bat" set up to run "dir /w /p". Back then, "dir" was practically
useless without /P. But with the GUI-window terminals now, I find it
easier to skip the /P feature and just use the scroll wheel. Or if I
really need to (ex, really long output, or a unix vm without X, or ssh
terminal via putty) then I'll just pipe into 'less' or redirect into a
text file.