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Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. Now if I could just maximize the command prompt window.

Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. Now if I could just maximize the command prompt window....

abrichr 13y ago
ConEmu [1] has made CLI on Windows much more tolerable for me. [1] http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
- platz 13y ago
  ConEmu is great; never looked back!
- shadowfox 13y ago
  Conemu with powershell and PSReadline [1] has made things a lot nicer. [1] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
sker 13y ago
You can't maximize it, but you can set its width and height. Right click in taskbar -> Properties -> Layout. There are settings for size, position and buffer size. I have mine the size of the whole window and with the biggest possible buffer, as well as a more readable font.
- deleted 13y ago
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jliechti1 13y ago
For Emacs users on Windows, I've found Eshell (M-x eshell)[0] to be much preferable to the normal command window for most tasks. [0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.ht...
pjmlp 13y ago
> Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. For many of us it already is.
Already__Taken 13y ago
I just fire up the powershell ISE. I'd love a quake style terminal that's just this things console in borderless mode.
- anurse 13y ago
  ConEmu (https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/) + Quake Mode = Awesome :)
  - gum_ina_package 13y ago
    THIS. ConEmu + Scoop (http://scoop.sh http://scoop.sh) has made using Windows much much much more productive for me.
    - wernercd 13y ago
      http://chocolatey.org/ http://chocolatey.org/
aespinoza 13y ago
windows is a first class os for web development. what is it lacking? i have coded in ruby, python, java and go for the web. also used different web servers including apache and tomcat.
- balac 13y ago
  For me the lack of many unix tools is a killer and cygwin doesn't cut it. Many build scripts assume a unixy environment and windows is flat-out not supported. Lack of a proper package manager also makes installing and configuring workstations a hassle.
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    It depends on what build scripts you are talking about. We use Ant, Maven, MSBuild, Powershell, all without UNIX assumptions. You can configure workstations via Active Directory. Microsoft is not to blame if developers still insist in having .exe installers instead of adopting .msi packages.
  - aespinoza 13y ago
    I don't think the package manager matters to be honest. In python I use pip. In ruby I use rubygems. In java I use maven for dependencies. in node.js I use npm. So really, even in ubuntu or macosx you will use theses tools.
    - jongalloway2 13y ago
      And you can install them all from chocolatey, if you need a package manager manager.
    - cmsd2 13y ago
      I've tried having all these installed, and having them all in my %PATH%, along with msys and the platform sdk and so on, but i found I just ended up with my PATH env var being truncated because I went over the environment block size limit. I've given up pretending windows is unixy and ditched it in favor of homebrew on osx
ams6110 13y ago
I used to use something called puTTYcyg when I used cygwin on windows. It seems that it's no longer maintained, but it was a decent terminal for Windows without going whole-hog X11 in cygwin.

Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. Now if I could just maximize the command prompt window....

abrichr 13y ago

ConEmu [1] has made CLI on Windows much more tolerable for me. [1] http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

platz 13y ago
ConEmu is great; never looked back!
shadowfox 13y ago
Conemu with powershell and PSReadline [1] has made things a lot nicer. [1] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

sker 13y ago

You can't maximize it, but you can set its width and height. Right click in taskbar -> Properties -> Layout. There are settings for size, position and buffer size. I have mine the size of the whole window and with the biggest possible buffer, as well as a more readable font.

deleted 13y ago
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jliechti1 13y ago

For Emacs users on Windows, I've found Eshell (M-x eshell)[0] to be much preferable to the normal command window for most tasks. [0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.ht...

pjmlp 13y ago

> Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. For many of us it already is.

Already__Taken 13y ago

I just fire up the powershell ISE. I'd love a quake style terminal that's just this things console in borderless mode.

anurse 13y ago
ConEmu (https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/) + Quake Mode = Awesome :)
- gum_ina_package 13y ago
  THIS. ConEmu + Scoop (http://scoop.sh http://scoop.sh) has made using Windows much much much more productive for me.
  - wernercd 13y ago
    http://chocolatey.org/ http://chocolatey.org/

aespinoza 13y ago

windows is a first class os for web development. what is it lacking? i have coded in ruby, python, java and go for the web. also used different web servers including apache and tomcat.

balac 13y ago
For me the lack of many unix tools is a killer and cygwin doesn't cut it. Many build scripts assume a unixy environment and windows is flat-out not supported. Lack of a proper package manager also makes installing and configuring workstations a hassle.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  It depends on what build scripts you are talking about. We use Ant, Maven, MSBuild, Powershell, all without UNIX assumptions. You can configure workstations via Active Directory. Microsoft is not to blame if developers still insist in having .exe installers instead of adopting .msi packages.
- aespinoza 13y ago
  I don't think the package manager matters to be honest. In python I use pip. In ruby I use rubygems. In java I use maven for dependencies. in node.js I use npm. So really, even in ubuntu or macosx you will use theses tools.
  - jongalloway2 13y ago
    And you can install them all from chocolatey, if you need a package manager manager.
  - cmsd2 13y ago
    I've tried having all these installed, and having them all in my %PATH%, along with msys and the platform sdk and so on, but i found I just ended up with my PATH env var being truncated because I went over the environment block size limit. I've given up pretending windows is unixy and ditched it in favor of homebrew on osx

ams6110 13y ago

I used to use something called puTTYcyg when I used cygwin on windows. It seems that it's no longer maintained, but it was a decent terminal for Windows without going whole-hog X11 in cygwin.