====== Cygwin Fonts and Performance ======
You can greatly increase the responsiveness of the shell terminal in cygwin by changing the font settings.  By default, the shell is using a raster font instead of a true type font, which causes slow standard output, pager scrolling etc...

  - open a cygwin shell
  - left click on the cygwin icon at the upper left
  - click 'Properties'
  - on the 'Font' tab, select 'Lucida Console' (or another monospaced true type font of your choice), and set the size as desired
  - set any other selections as desired, such as alternate background/foreground color
  - click ok, and select 'Modify the shortcut that started this window'
  - the cygwin shell should now be much faster