Firefox:

• Firebug, Yslow, Colorzilla, JSView:
  Powerful addons to debug and help into the development of websites and webapps
• Minimize to Tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains, Download statusbar, Bookmark Duplicate Detector
  Convenience addons
• Scrapbook
  Locally store web contents

Thunderbird:

• External editor:
  to be able to warmly use gvim to compose messages
• SyncMab:
  to synchronize (export/import) the address book.
• Quote colors:
  Colors paragraphs depending on quoting level. Very useful for mailing list reading.
• Colored Diffs:
  Colors inline diffs. Very useful for mailing list reading.
• Sync on arrival:Get IMAP mail as soon as a new message notification arrives
• Copy sent to currentPut reply as child message
• Minimize to tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains:
  Convenience addons

With this, openssh, gvim you can feel a bit more like at home .

To tackle the accented characters I had to add an ~/.inputrc file as this one:

"\e[3~": delete-char
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
set input-meta on

To have a bigger console window on startup I've changed the cygwin.bat call (and msys could be done in a similar way) to:

rxvt -fn '8x15' -geometry '80x50' -title 'cygwin rxvt' -bg black -fg grey -tn xterm -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i

A minimal .bash_profile to import alias and other settings:
# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

and a small .bashrc with colored dirs and the right localization settings:


# .bashrc
alias less='less -r'
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls -F --color'
LANG=es_ES@euro
LC_ALL=es_ES@euro
LANGUAGE=es_ES@euro
LC_TYPE=es_ES@euro
LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro
OUTPUT_CHARSET=es_ES@euro

export LANG LC_ALL LANGUAGE LC_TYPE LC_CTYPE OUTPUT_CHARSET

NOTE: those files must use unix style line endings to work properly.


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
</code>