18 Dec, 2009, Chris Bailey wrote in the 1st comment:
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Lately I have been required to use the Windows operating system and I have found it's terminal application to be crap. Anyhow, after searching for an alternative I came across this little gem. It's called Console and is currently in beta although I haven't come across any issues. If you are sick of trying to toy around with cmd.exe, or if you just want something with more power, give it a try.
18 Dec, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 2nd comment:
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Sometimes I would use the Cygwin command tool to do Windowsy things, because I preferred the keyboard shortcut interface that the shell handled. Kind of twisted, but it worked. This 'Console' application looks like it might be a better way, though. :wink:
18 Dec, 2009, Chris Bailey wrote in the 3rd comment:
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I've only been using it for about 2 hours and I'm already in love :P — SCREENSHOT
18 Dec, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 4th comment:
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Since it doesn't have a website, I'll use you as the interim manual. :wink: Does it support the various readline features of being able to easily navigate/modify the current input text? Being able to do things like ctrl-R to search history? etc. Perhaps another question: what exactly is it about it that makes it better?
18 Dec, 2009, Chris Bailey wrote in the 5th comment:
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Seems to support all common readline features but I don't see a way to search history. Hitting the up key goes back through most recent commands of course. Typical tab completion and whatnot. Most of that stuff is the same (No idea what is going to be added though). The reason *I* like it so much better is because of dynamic resizing, TABS, TABS, TABS, and transparency. Along with a plethora of other various configurable aesthetics. I'm looking more into it to see what interesting features it might have. So far it just seems to do everything that cmd.exe does with a few added benefits. More to come :P
EDIT: It also supports a bajillion hotkey configurations and you can select whatever shell you want to use with it. I'm trying to get bash working properly and recognizing all of my familiar stuff. No more typing ls for 10 minutes trying to figure out what I broke. :P
18 Dec, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 6th comment:
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cmd.exe can do tab completion as well. IIRC it's not easy to find, but it's possible. Perhaps it depends on the Windows version.
So it can list files in multiple columns? (or can the windows terminal do that too?)
Yes, that's a factor of the tool you use to list files, not the terminal itself. There are "ports" of the 'ls' tool for Windows that have the behavior you want.
I favor the cygwin shell really. Played around with Console for a bit and its far better than cmd.exe or even windows powershell, but let's face it - *nix syntax ftw.
19 Dec, 2009, Hyper_Eye wrote in the 10th comment:
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I don't like cygwin. I consider it bloat. When I work in a Windows environment I use Console (the one presented in this thread), UnixUtils (theres your *nix syntax), mingw, and vim for Windows.
I had a quick look at it. Looks like Console doesn't support keypad application mode, no readline emulation (not sure if it should), can't really get copy-paste to work, can't launch Console with an argument to launch another application inside it, it sends some really odd key combinations when pressing F2 through F5 (\eI had a quick look at it. Looks like Console doesn't support keypad application mode, no readline emulation (not sure if it should), can't really get copy-paste to work, can't launch Console with an argument to launch another application inside it, it sends some really odd key combinations when pressing F2 through F5 (\e[[B), it has the same VT100 bugs as cmd.exe, no 256 color support.
As far as I can tell it's a pimped up cmd.exe, in other words, epic fail.
10 Jan, 2010, Chris Bailey wrote in the 13th comment:
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The more I played with it the more I realised it sucked. It is certainly better than cmd.exe, but I still just limit all use of a terminal inside windows, It just makes hate the OS more.
Eh, just throwing it out there. I don't expect much from Windows when it comes to command line interfaces. lol
10 Jan, 2010, quixadhal wrote in the 15th comment:
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I'll pimp the idea of just running a linux VM inside of windows. Unless you're working on a cracker-jack box 386 or something, I can't see why you'd invest the amount of effort into getting cygwhine or any other attempts to unixify windows working, when you could just have a full working OS, nicely contained in a box that you can transplant from one physical machine to another at will. Heck, I've even used Xming so I can run X apps in the VM and have their displays end up on my windows desktop.
I can't see why you'd invest the amount of effort into getting cygwhine or any other attempts to unixify windows working, when you could just have a full working OS
Sometimes, people are forced to use stuff they don't like. :p
I was forced to use Microsoft Office instead of Open Office just for writing documentation and updating spread sheets for a company that developed servers and the UNIX software and custom file system that ran on them. lol
What are you really looking for in a console window? A better shell language? Better utilities? Better command history? Better tab completion? Maybe TCC/LE solves some of your issues.
it's terminal application to be crap. Anyhow, after searching for an alternative I came
across this little gem. It's called Console and is currently in beta although I haven't
come across any issues. If you are sick of trying to toy around with cmd.exe, or if
you just want something with more power, give it a try.