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If this can bring me a working * nix shell under Windows, I'd be extremely happy. Windows is great for everything except I have never learned PS as well as I know the * nix shells -- with this, I could enjoy the hardware and proper multi-monitor support, speed and stability (seriously) of Windows and use the * nix command line.
Cmd.exe is an abomination though - and Cygwin defaults to using it for terminal use. I see that this project also does that.
Use http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
It is not an alternative terminal, but injects itself into every cmd process to allow completion, better key handling etc. I was skeptical at first, but it's a really, really great tool.
If this can bring me a working * nix shell under Windows, I'd be extremely happy. Windows is great for everything except I have never learned PS as well as I know the * nix shells -- with this, I could enjoy the hardware and proper multi-monitor support, speed and stability (seriously) of Windows and use the * nix command line.
Now I feel horrible for revealing my dirty secret :(
Cmd.exe is an abomination though - and Cygwin defaults to using it for terminal use. I see that this project also does that.
Agreed, but I don't think Cygwin defaults to it any more. It uses mintty now, which understands Cygwin ptys and has a native Windows interface.
I guess you could also use an X11 terminal emulator in this project.
If this can bring me a working * nix shell under Windows, I'd be extremely happy. Windows is great for everything except I have never learned PS as well as I know the * nix shells -- with this, I could enjoy the hardware and proper multi-monitor support, speed and stability (seriously) of Windows and use the * nix command line.
Secondly, completely off topic, I noticed that Github picks up 0.4% of the code-base as Objective-C (https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux/search?l=objective-c) due to the files functionally consisting of a single line, `#pragma once`. Is this statement more common in Objective-C than C or C++ ? Just wondering if Github detects the language based partly on some statistical analysis of other existing code, or if it has "set rules".
Cygwin is impressively complete - if you haven't checked in on it recently, there are over 5000 packages in the official repo (that's more than Arch Linux's official repos), and adding the http://cygwinports.org/ repo gives you full KDE, GNOME 3 and Xfce on windows (although KDE has a first-party port). What this tool offers over Cygwin is the ability to run unmodified linux binary-only software for which you do not…
Cmd.exe is an abomination though - and Cygwin defaults to using it for terminal use. I see that this project also does that.