Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#1

Post by yanovskishai » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 11:23 AM UTC

Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe
code.google.com

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#2

Post by slu » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

Looks sweet.

I currently have to use Windows at the customer I'm working for. I've installed Console which gives tabs and better copy-n-paste on Windows. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

I'm not sure if clink and Console will work together, but I'll have to try it.

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

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Post by rbn » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

slu wrote: post #2

Looks sweet. I currently have to use Windows at the customer I'm working for. I've installed Console which gives tabs and better copy-n-paste on Windows. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ I'm not sure if clink and Console will work together, but I'll have to try it.

I use console too and it's awesome. I love the tabs and the transparency feature.

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#4

Post by alanbyrne » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

What's wrong with Powershell?

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#5

Post by est » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:14 PM UTC

alanbyrne wrote: post #4

What's wrong with Powershell?

starts too slow.

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

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Post by pygy_ » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:17 PM UTC

alanbyrne wrote: post #4

What's wrong with Powershell?

Yet another tool to learn.

It is definitely worth it for some people, but time is a limited resource, and others will benefit from this kind of project.

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#7

Post by 38leinad » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:39 PM UTC

just use cygwin

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

#8

Post by ot » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:43 PM UTC

slu wrote: post #2

Looks sweet. I currently have to use Windows at the customer I'm working for. I've installed Console which gives tabs and better copy-n-paste on Windows. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ I'm not sure if clink and Console will work together, but I'll have to try it.

Console2 regularly crashes on my Windows 7, and it looks like it's not actively developed.

I'm giving ConEmu a try and it looks awesome!

http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

Scott Hanselman wrote a blog post about it:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsol...

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

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Post by ot » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

38leinad wrote: post #7

just use cygwin

I feel like cygwin manages to combine the worst of UNIX and the worst of Windows. And the commands that use the cygwin runtime are noticeably slower than the native counterparts.

Also, AFAIK there is no 64bit version yet, which for me is a dealbreaker (I often work with files larger than 2GB).

Re: Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe

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Post by EvilTerran » Sun, Jul 01, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

ot wrote: post #9

38leinad wrote: post #7

just use cygwin

I feel like cygwin manages to combine the worst of UNIX and the worst of Windows. And the commands that use the cygwin runtime are noticeably slower than the native counterparts. Also, AFAIK there is no 64bit version yet, which for me is a dealbreaker (I often work with files larger than 2GB).

I'm with you there -- I find Cygwin starts slow and unstable, and then seems to rot at an astonishing speed, to the point where it's usually unusable after I've had it installed for a couple of months.