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The console/terminal/command prompt/whatever is still hot garbage. I recently installed Bash for Windows on my Windows 10 laptop excited that maybe I could use
by Touche 10y ago
The console/terminal/command prompt/whatever is still hot garbage. I recently installed Bash for Windows on my Windows 10 laptop excited that maybe I could use it for dev again. Nope, uses the same terrible console that has been in Windows since they dropped DOS.
If they really want to go after devs this needs to be an "all hands on deck" thing they fix. Stop everything you are doing and focus exclusively on this. Don't try to make incremental improvements to the existing terminal; start from scratch.
Here are some requirements:
1) Copy/paste must just work like it does in all other app. Including selection.
2) Standard menus, not right-click on the window chrome and "Properties".
3) Has to look decent by default. Not 8px fonts. Not 0px padding. Not a scrollbar before there's anything to scroll. Make it look decent.
4) Tabs
That's it! I (and no one else) cares if its embeddable or not, just make a terminal that is decent, like Terminal.app (which I don't use but is fine).
PS: Please do not reply with command prompt wrappers that try to fix these issues. I've seen them all and they aren't good enough (through no fault of their own, they have to work with the command prompt).
- nulagrithom 10y ago> PS: Please do not reply with command prompt wrappers Are you sure you've seen them all? Even the Linux ones? :) Try Xming (an X server for Windows). You can run just about any terminal emulator you want. I find Terminator to be quite nice.
- nas 10y agoTheir command window annoys the hell out of me as well. How many years did it take for them to get working tab complete by default? Another annoying thing is Notepad. Would it kill them to give it the ability to handle different line endings? It would probably take an intern one day to fix it. Nope, they are an island and screw the rest of the computing world.
- JdeBP 10y agoIt's a console. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-cli-is-not-a-dos-prompt.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-cli-is-not-a-dos-prompt.html * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-command-interpreter-is-not-a-console.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/a-command-interpreter-is-not-a-console.... * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html The sad thing is that the Interix subsystem did improve on the console, giving it a far more complete terminal emulation for starters, and Microsoft owns it. The WSL did not build upon this. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581935 * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/interix-terminal-type.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/interix-terminal-type.html