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Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Re: Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Post by runjake »

For what it's worth, it's very, very buggy on Windows 8 x64. I couldn't get tab completion working, and after the first dir command, everything went downhill. It began behaving like a text editor. When I typed or backspaced, it backspaced over the prompt and everything else. The kickstarter video was pretty promising, though.

Might I suggest you compiled x64, too? x64 seems to be more commonly sold over x86 these days -- at least in the US.

Re: Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Post by tltjr »

runjake wrote: post #3

For what it's worth, it's very, very buggy on Windows 8 x64. I couldn't get tab completion working, and after the first dir command, everything went downhill. It began behaving like a text editor. When I typed or backspaced, it backspaced over the prompt and everything else. The kickstarter video was pretty promising, though. Might I suggest you compiled x64, too? x64 seems to be more commonly sold over x86 these day…

Thanks for the input. I haven't tested on Windows 8, so I'm not too surprised. Maybe I'll make separate installers if there is a lot of interest.

Re: Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Post by tinco »

The features sound nice, they could use a bit more slick design ;) Why not make it for the Metro UI? Might rock..

If you suggested you would dive into the WinAPI and use your C++ skills to write a new console _engine_ I would gladly pledge 50 bucks or more.

I'm afraid many people will pledge thinking this will bring a usable console emulator to Windows, instead of just another Console2 like hack around the severely limited windows api.

I think 5 years of .Net experience won't cut it for that ..

Re: Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Post by alpb »

Man, this sounds like the best thing ever happened to cmd.exe, I will give it a try and back it on Kickstarter. But I think such a project should be developed under an open source license and maybe licenses can still be sold like Textmate.

Re: Reimagining the Windows Command Line

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Post by airfoil »

Nice work!

I played with it for a bit and one thing I noticed was that the "Home" key took me to the beginning of the line/prompt instead of the start of my input. Also if I backspace far enough it will start to kill my prompt.

One thing that would make this awesome for me is emacs keybindings.

Overall though, I think this has nice potential to be a super useful tool. Thanks for sharing!

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