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Thanks for the pointer. I'll share a link to Cmder[1], which was what I was pointed at the other day.

(So far, it beats the heck out of cmd.exe, especially for WSL...)

My only gripe is the delay after opening a new terminal. If it takes > 5s after launching to actually get a shell where I can type things, we have an efficiency problem. It's all the python behind the scenes. The dev chose simplicity over speed.

And this terminal is "based on web technologies" so I doubt decent speed is really achievable.

It's almost ironic that web developers are creating terminals.

Maybe you are thinking of hyper? Cmder is based on conEmu as far is I know

You're correct that it is _based off_ ConEmu, but it has a bunch of additional sluggish Python code to load in a fancy lamba symbol for the prompt and some aliases that try to be unix commands.

I believe the slowdown is due to the clink prompt running external programs in order to find git status etc. I run clink without ConEmu (cmdr is a pack of both with some config) and recently redid the prompt to make it less functional but MUCH faster.

I basically changed the config.lua file to use clink.get_cwd() instead of pwd(), and to

            local HEADfile = io.open(git_dir.."/HEAD")
            if not HEADfile then return false end
            local git_branch = HEADfile:read():match('ref: refs/heads/(.*)')
            HEADfile:close()
            return colors.git_dirty .. " (" .. git_branch .. ")"

to find the current git branch if any. Less functional and more potential for errors (detached heads or such) but for my case it's very worth it.

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