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Too bad windows cmd is so fantastically horrible. This looks like a good project though.

PowerShell's a massive improvement, but the terminal itself hasn't changed in ages (barely any change since NT4/W95 if I had to guess). There's replacements, but you can't count on arbitrary servers having them installed.

Use Powershell and ConEmu

Perhaps you will find this useful: https://code.google.com/p/clink/

Great! Now I am using cmd + clink + console2. Very natural solution... I have found powershell to be slower/less responsive for some reason

Any advice on how to make these 3 tools work together? I scanned the web and experimented today for approx 1 hour but didn't succeed. My general efforts were: (i) injecting clink into the Console2 process (ii) hosting the injected cmd process in Console2.

I actually did nothing special, I just installed clink as executable. Tested it in cmd.exe (you will get the message about running clink). Afterwards added a tab for cmd.exe in console2 and it worked. Whas seems to be a problem for you?

Hi, thanks for the info. The initial difference is that I cannot use the installer due to Windows group policies associated with my account (the PC is not mine to administer). So I've downloaded and extracted the v0.3 zip archive.

I manually start clink by running "install_dir\clink inject" in a cmd session and this procedure works correctly. Problems arise when running the same command in a cmd session in Console2. The Console2 process disappears (crashes?) after approx 1 sec, then 10s later the clink executable disappears. Strange behaviour and I may simply drop this and perhaps try again in future once the tool(s) have matured.

I hadn't used either Console2 or clink before now; I can get by without them as I'm not a rabid user of the Windows command line. I'll likely casually experiment with them separately.

Try out ConEmu instead of Console2. It also has clink integration from the box.

Glad you like it! (My brother is the author. :])

I use pycmd -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ Also tried console2, and zsh win32 variants i found.

It's better but not really great. I just don't understand why it has to run within the cmd environment, which is horrible. I use Git++'s shell as my go-to cmd in windows but that's about the same. Why can't it be a complete application that would emulate the "cdm" under the hood? So I can get the feel of a real (as in anything you install on linux) terminal application.

Console2 + msys bash is bearable.

Try clink (search on google code), it brings bash to cmd.

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