[new]
{{{
  ;; [...] Assumes that C:\cygwin\bin is
  ;; not already in your Windows Path (it generally should not be).}}}

Why not?

The cygwin documentation itself seems to disagree: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html

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Putting Cygwin's path first will override Windows' builtin commands like `find' which have different semantics than the Unix version.  This can break batch file scripts.

I don't where the cygwin documentation says anything about it either way (at least, looking at the Sep 2018 version of that page).

-- npostavs 2018-09-07 12:13 UTC