[Mingw-msys] msys.bat diff

[Daniel S. <das...@da...>]

I'd like to set some environment variables and start a program as part of
MSYS startup process, and shut down the program when MSYS exits. The only 
way I know to do this is by modifying the msys.bat script. Rather than put 
my commands directly in msys.bat, I thought it would be a good idea to 
instead let that script call pre and post scripts, like shown in the 
following diff:

msys.bat.diff:
--- msys.bat.orig       Thu Jul 10 07:56:49 2003
+++ msys.bat    Sat Jul 19 16:44:15 2003
@@ -59,11 +59,16 @@
 if "%MSYSTEM%" == "MINGW32" set BGCOLOR=%MINGW32BGCOLOR%
 if "%MSYSTEM%" == "MINGW32" set FGCOLOR=%MINGW32FGCOLOR%
 
-start rxvt -backspacekey  -sl 2500 -fg %FGCOLOR% -bg %BGCOLOR% -sr -fn 
Courier-12 -tn msys -e /bin/sh --login -i
-exit
+call ..\msys-pre.bat
+
+rxvt -backspacekey  -sl 2500 -fg %FGCOLOR% -bg %BGCOLOR% -sr -fn Courier-
12 -tn msys -e /bin/sh --login -i
+goto end
 
 :startsh
-start sh --login -i
+sh --login -i
+
+:end
+call ..\msys-post.bat
 exit
 
 :EOF


And then put my commands in those scripts, like this:

msys-pre.bat:
set PATH=%PATH%;E:\bin\dev
set SVN_EDITOR=notepad
start E:\bin\gstlfilt\STLTask.EXE /q

msys-post.bat:
taskkill /im STLTask.EXE


Is this a good way to do what I want? If so, please consider merging the 
diff with official version of MSYS (and adding empty msys-pre.bat and msys-
post.bat files -- maybe with a rem explaining their intended use), so I 
won't have to apply the changes everytime I upgrade. :) If not, pointers to 
how to better do this would be much appreciated.


BTW, if it matters, I'm using MSYS 1.0.9 in Windows XP.

Thanks,
Daniel Schlyder