Windows Terminal Preview 1.9 Release

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14 points·zadjii··6 comments

This is a big release for the Terminal - with two major features finally landing:

* Support for setting the Windows Terminal as the _default_ terminal on Windows. When that's all set up, commandline applications will launch directly into the Terminal instead of into the vintage console (conhost.exe)

* Support for "quake mode", or just activating the window with a global hotkey. This one's been consistently the highest-requested feature on the Terminal issue tracker, so it's really satisfying to see it finally ship. At first I thought it was a bit of a silly idea, but after using it for a while, I can't believe I ever lived without it.

It's great to see Windows Terminal become integrated into Windows.

It would be equally great if Microsoft could tell us where and when PowerShell 7 will become the default PowerShell in Windows.

Its not integrated into Windows. You still need to install it.

Quite right, though it's likely that Microsoft will add Windows Terminal to Windows in a future release.

It would be great if they would tell me too :P

Indeed.

Just had a look at the Future milestone for PowerShell and with 272 open issues, it's not likely to see PowerShell 7 as default anytime soon.

One of the open issues from 2019 about ease of install would be great to have fixed:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/8663

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