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Worth noting for people who don't use MS tech stack much, this is the new Terminal that you get from the windows store (for free) not cmd.exe

Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.

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conhost.exe is the terminal, cmd.exe is the shell, this patch is in fact only currently used in conhost

conhost is in the terminal repo? Huh interesting, that surprises me.

Conhost and Terminal share quite a lot of code in fact. The text buffer, the renderer, the VT sequence parser - all that's the same codebase. That allows bugfixes and improvements to the the Terminal to also flow back to the vintage console (for people who still use that)

Interesting tidbit - thank you for sharing. That's handy for those who prefer the vintage console (including myself).

That is _technically_ correct (the best kind). There's some plumbing between conhost and Terminal we need to clean up before we can add it to Terminal too. We've got a branch ready, we've just got to merge a whole stack of PRs first before we can get there.

Terminal is built into newer versions of Windows 11.

They added directly finally? Good to know they hadn't when I got Win 11.

It's nice for me because my workplace turns off access to the Windows Store.

We shipped it (the Terminal) with the first versions of Windows 11. I don't think the "default terminal" feature defaulted to the new Terminal in the first win11 builds, but it should now. And you can always pick whichever terminal you want as the default terminal

Really? I swear when I got my alienware I had to go to the store to install it.

And I just type term when I hit the windows key anyway so default mostly doesn't matter for me, but good to know.

I was about to express my surprise that such a major part of Windows was now open source on Github.

Has been for like, five years now ;)

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