Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build

Post by thebspatrol » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

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I've used iTerm and Terminal on Mac, and the default Windows Terminal (conhost), PuTTY sand MinTTY on Windows. Terminal.app is much, much better than conhost, even after the Windows 10 update. It's fast, supports a ton of thoughtful features (such as customizable title bars via extended ANSI codes, real line wrapping during resize, good Unicode support from the very beginning, etc.). With Terminal.app I can be quite…

What drove me away from Terminal.app was the fact that I can't use command-1/2/3 to switch tabs. Ctrl-tab doesn't work either. Did I miss something?

Post by pixelcloud » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

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Most Windows terminal people use ConEmu rather than the inbuilt terminal apps - it's like iTerm2 vs Terminal.app on MacOS. ConEmu adds Unix style cut and paste, tabs, etc. Add openssh, PSReadLine and PSCX and you've got a proper terminal setup. Also MS should really improve the inbuilt apps to do this stuff.

Whilst I am glad to hear about ConEmu; I have to disagree, I use windows cmd.exe very regularly, and know lots of other people that do, and I have never used ConEmu before! I might give it a try now I know about it.

Post by Arnavion » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:24 PM UTC

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Compare it with cmd.exe's dir

I have had a quick look through here [1] and most of the answers involve timing precision of two significant digits. By that metric, PowerShell's 2.4ms clocks in at 0.00 seconds. Which means cmd.exe (at a precision of two significant digits) can't beat it. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/673523/how-to-measure-exe...

Post by int_19h » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

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By the way, where does the capitalized kebab case come from? Prior art or just Microsofts general hankering for capitalization (e.g. C#s Class.DoSomething() vs Java's Class.doSomething())?

Post by hota_mazi » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

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What drove me away from Terminal.app was the fact that I can't use command-1/2/3 to switch tabs. Ctrl-tab doesn't work either. Did I miss something?

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