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Try Power Shell.
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
Try Power Shell.
- contextfree 15y ago... which runs in the standard console, and therefore does nothing whatever to address the problem with the Windows console being awful.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoIt adds a bunch of useful stuff to the Path including select, sort, and ls. The lack of utilities in the standard cmd is my major gripe, what's yours?
- natesm 15y agoThe emulator itself is absolutely terrible, compared to, say, gnome-terminal or iTerm.
- contextfree 15y agoYou were responding to someone's complaint about the lousy console window.
- mikemaccana 15y agoPoSH 2+ includes tabs and a method browser IIRC.
- heresy 15y agoPowerShell is handy, but man, is it slow. If you thought text rendering by cmd.exe was slow, wait till you get a load of PowerShell. I don't really understand why the console subsystem in Windows is so slow that it can actually add a significant amount of time to a build with lots of scrolling text. Even the "slow" Terminal.app is a whiz by comparison, to say nothing of Gnome Terminal, or, rxvt.
- contextfree 15y agoI remember a few occasions at work where I figured I'd write a quick Powershell script to process some text files or something, and writing the script was quick and pleasant enough, but then it turned out to be quicker to just write a C# program to do the same thing rather than wait for the Powershell script to finish =)
- rbanffy 15y ago> it turned out to be quicker to just write a C# program I you really should install cygwin (and MinTTY). http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.htm...
- contextfree 15y agoiirc I had cygwin installed as well, but had mostly stopped using it for some reason I forget.