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• How to check what Cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

cygcheck -c

• IPython cannot run by complaining “No module named backports.shutil_get_terminal_size”. Need to install python2-pip first

pip2 install https://github.com/chrippa/backports.shutil_get_terminal_size/archive/159e269450dbf37c3a837f6ea7e628d59acbb96a.zip

• How to change cursor of vim in cygwin: https://superuser.com/questions/634326/how-can-i-get-a-block-cursor-in-vim-in-the-cygwin-terminal