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> a clean, fully featured tabbed terminal, included in Windows You'd either get a Microsoft Word equivalent of a console window in that case, since everyone ha
by ygra 10y ago
> a clean, fully featured tabbed terminal, included in Windows
You'd either get a Microsoft Word equivalent of a console window in that case, since everyone has a different set of features they consider essential, or the Notepad equivalent (more likely). A tool's value doesn't necessarily increase with more features and features are never cheap (in Windows, at least, where there are documentation, translation, configuration, group policy, and other concerns).
Tabbed console windows exist as 3rd-party applications already, seemingly with minor problems for one user or another, but I'd argue those problems are easier to rectify than for MS to develop yet another alternative that people grumble about even more because it doesn't contain their own personal pet feature.
- nailer 10y ago> A tool's value doesn't necessarily increase with more features and features are never cheap What I mean when I write 'clean and fully featured' is: a console, tabs, a nice scroll buffer, working escape sequences, suppressing the bell. That's about it. This is 1000x less features than ConEmu - I don't care about a new exciting way to set terminal variables, or integration with a file manager nobody uses, or support for a bitmap font format, or per-app antialiasing settings. Or various silly extras the other terminals add - I don't want a new way to do Unix on Windows, I don't want a new SSH client this isn't as good as openssh, I don't want a new windowing system. I'm suggesting EXACTLY something like notepad. Do 1000x less things, and do the remainder well. > I'd argue those problems are easier to rectify than for MS to develop yet another alternative Just add tabs to the console app as suggested. Or use whatever Edge uses for window chrome and shove the console app in there rather than html.
- tolger 10y agoI'm with nailer on this. All I need is a decent built-in console with tabs and good support for bash, powershell and cmd.