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Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#22
post #13

Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.

I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).

It's not the same: reverse/forward searches look into command history to let you relaunch commands prevously used.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#23

Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.

Reverse/forward searches are features of the shell, not the terminal. As others have noted, PowerShell supports those.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#24
post #19
post #7

Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.

Apparently they’re working on an official package manager, open source even: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/

The state of this new package manager called WinGet was recently discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26845530

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#25

Being a user of Cmder (ConEmu), I have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you to OP for naking me aware that this is now available

ConEmu manages the whole elevated/non-elevated situation better than Windows Terminal in my opinion.

As mentioned in the article elevated and non-elevated Windows Terminal windows are two different apps. In ConEmu they are tabs in the app.

The real benefit is that you can easily start either a elevated or non-elevated window within ConEmu, of course this is only possible if ConEmu was started in elevated mode in the first place.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#26
post #9

> Many existing terminals support a feature whereby a user can press a keybinding anywhere in the OS, and summon their terminal application. [...] This global summon action is often referred to as "quake mode", a reference to the video game Quake, who's console slid in from the top. This is not to play Quake in WT, this allows WT to behave like the console window in Quake descendants that displays when [ ~] is presse…

That does sound helpful. Although, in Quake, you can shoot the monstrosities that vex you. You cannot do that in Windows.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#27

Being a user of Cmder (ConEmu), I have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you to OP for naking me aware that this is now available

Its not quite available yet, looks to be getting the bulk of the work released in 1.9 looking at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/8888

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#29
post #25

Being a user of Cmder (ConEmu), I have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you to OP for naking me aware that this is now available

ConEmu manages the whole elevated/non-elevated situation better than Windows Terminal in my opinion. As mentioned in the article elevated and non-elevated Windows Terminal windows are two different apps. In ConEmu they are tabs in the app. The real benefit is that you can easily start either a elevated or non-elevated window within ConEmu, of course this is only possible if ConEmu was started in elevated mode in the…

In Windows Terminal, I'm sure you can create a new profile with your chosen shell prepended with "start-process -Verb RunAs" that will offer similar fuctionality.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

#30
post #25

Being a user of Cmder (ConEmu), I have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you to OP for naking me aware that this is now available

ConEmu manages the whole elevated/non-elevated situation better than Windows Terminal in my opinion. As mentioned in the article elevated and non-elevated Windows Terminal windows are two different apps. In ConEmu they are tabs in the app. The real benefit is that you can easily start either a elevated or non-elevated window within ConEmu, of course this is only possible if ConEmu was started in elevated mode in the…

I use the gsudo program for that gives you sudo in windows terminal and just elevates current shell.
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