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This is great news. Now all we need is a proper terminal in Windows that includes Python out of the box ;)

passive 11y ago
The terminal in windows 10 is much improved. Specifically copy and paste being less insane, and proper multi-line selection. I'm sure it is still deficient in many ways, but those were always the biggest irritations. No built-in python yet though.
- mizzao 11y ago
  The command prompt looks the same in Windows 8.1 and 10 to me. What terminal are you talking about?
  - alexc05 11y ago
    He might be referring to powershell ... I never use CMD anymore. I first started using it a few years back because it uses 'ls' instead of 'dir' for a directory list. Over time I've learned more and more about how its improved over CMD... and it has gotten even better in windows 10. May not quite be 100% as good as terminal on OSX but it really is very good. Funny annecdote. I was at a clojure meetup last night tapping away on my windows 10 laptop and the developer behind me said "is that Ubuntu?" I told him that it was W10 and he said "wow, I guess I might finally have to admit that windows doesn't look terrible anymore" I felt like that was pretty high praise given the audience.
    - dingo_bat 11y ago
      Even cmd is much improved in win 10. Text reflow, free zize windows, sane selection, etc. But nothing can make up for the lack of built-in, out-of-the-box UNIX utilities like cat, grep and the works.
      - alexc05 11y ago
        My "workaround" for that is to install git-scm https://git-scm.com/ https://git-scm.com/ and select "yes" at the install Unix tools prompt. I am not certain that it is perfect and you're 100% right that it's not "native" but it might help ease your pain a little.
- alexc05 11y ago
  Don't forget that text automatically reflows when you resize. I shed a tear of joy when that finally happened. Now if only I could have terminal-tabs powershell would be perfect.
  - jodrellblank 11y ago
    You can have terminal tabs in PowerShell ISE, with Ctrl+T or File -> New PowerShell Tab.
  - austinsharp 11y ago
    Console2 and ConEmu both provide really good, feature rich wrappers for terminals, including first and foremost tabs.
mrcrassic 11y ago
PowerShell + Set-PSReadline = awesome terminal!

The terminal in windows 10 is much improved. Specifically copy and paste being less insane, and proper multi-line selection. I'm sure it is still deficient in many ways, but those were always the biggest irritations. No built-in python yet though.

mizzao 11y ago
The command prompt looks the same in Windows 8.1 and 10 to me. What terminal are you talking about?
- alexc05 11y ago
  He might be referring to powershell ... I never use CMD anymore. I first started using it a few years back because it uses 'ls' instead of 'dir' for a directory list. Over time I've learned more and more about how its improved over CMD... and it has gotten even better in windows 10. May not quite be 100% as good as terminal on OSX but it really is very good. Funny annecdote. I was at a clojure meetup last night tapping away on my windows 10 laptop and the developer behind me said "is that Ubuntu?" I told him that it was W10 and he said "wow, I guess I might finally have to admit that windows doesn't look terrible anymore" I felt like that was pretty high praise given the audience.
  - dingo_bat 11y ago
    Even cmd is much improved in win 10. Text reflow, free zize windows, sane selection, etc. But nothing can make up for the lack of built-in, out-of-the-box UNIX utilities like cat, grep and the works.
    - alexc05 11y ago
      My "workaround" for that is to install git-scm https://git-scm.com/ https://git-scm.com/ and select "yes" at the install Unix tools prompt. I am not certain that it is perfect and you're 100% right that it's not "native" but it might help ease your pain a little.
alexc05 11y ago
Don't forget that text automatically reflows when you resize. I shed a tear of joy when that finally happened. Now if only I could have terminal-tabs powershell would be perfect.
- jodrellblank 11y ago
  You can have terminal tabs in PowerShell ISE, with Ctrl+T or File -> New PowerShell Tab.
- austinsharp 11y ago
  Console2 and ConEmu both provide really good, feature rich wrappers for terminals, including first and foremost tabs.

mrcrassic 11y ago

PowerShell + Set-PSReadline = awesome terminal!