Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
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Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
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Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#2Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have.
TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to interact with the conpty using only a stream of characters, while commandline applications will be able to keep using the entire console API surface as they always have.
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#3Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
This is awesome. Thank you for all ya'll's hard work!
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#4Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
Will this replace Command Prompt or Powershell? Or is this more the back-end for these apps? I believe that we are heading for console overload (in a good way?!) with Command Prompt and Powershell installed on every computer and Debian/Ubuntu available on the MS store.
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#5Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
Will this replace Command Prompt or Powershell? Or is this more the back-end for these apps? I believe that we are heading for console overload (in a good way?!) with Command Prompt and Powershell installed on every computer and Debian/Ubuntu available on the MS store.
The back end. Basically people like ConEmu and Hyper and Terminus have been having to use various unreliable hacks for ages because there was no real console API. Now there is one.
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#6Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
Zadji I love your work. Which build is this going to land in? Do you know if any of the third party console apps using the new API yet?
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#7Where can we try a .NET solution with this ConPty?
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#8Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
Will this replace Command Prompt or Powershell? Or is this more the back-end for these apps? I believe that we are heading for console overload (in a good way?!) with Command Prompt and Powershell installed on every computer and Debian/Ubuntu available on the MS store.
First off: command prompt (cmd.exe) and powershell are commandline client applications. They are shells just the same as bash is.
All commandline clients run attached to a console server, and that server is conhost.exe. Conhost is responsible not only for being the console server, but drawing the actual terminal window these apps run in. So when you alunch cmd or powershell, what you're seeing is conhost.exe "hosting" these console applications.
What we're exposing here is the "master side" of conhost, which will the other applications act as Terminals, like how there is gnome-terminal, xterm, terminator, etc on linux.
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#9Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
Zadji I love your work. Which build is this going to land in? Do you know if any of the third party console apps using the new API yet?
It's already available in current insider's builds, and will be landing officially in the next available Windows release some time later this year.
We're still working with ConEmu, VsCode, and OpenSSH to get them all over to the new API, with varying levels of adoption in the next few months likely.
Currently, WSL is also using the same functionality, if you open a WSL distro and run any Windows executables (eg `cmd.exe`), they'll run attached to a conpty. I use this as my daily driver.
Re: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
#10Hey I'm one of the Console devs who's been working on this feature for a while now. I'll be hanging around in the comments for a little while to try and answer any questions that people might have. TL;DR of this announcement: We've added a new pseudoconsole feature to the Windows Console that will the people create "Terminal" applications on Windows very similarly to how they work on *nix. Terminals will be able to i…
While it is nice that MS is focusing on console and command line now, it seems to me that you are mostly working on improving compatibility with legacy UNIXy stuff.
Do you have some vision or plans to go well beyond the classic UNIXy style of console and command line? I'm thinking in the lines of projects like DomTerm http://domterm.org/ which could have nice interactions with e.g. PowerShell.