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Does Windows 10 includes a better Terminal or we need to install Putty?

It does have some small improvements (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/window...) but nothing spectacular. I'd recommend you to look into MobaXterm or ConEmu running cygwin as well, I like any of those two way more then Putty actually.

Those are actually pretty important improvements. But it's quite shocking how long they've taken.

> this is something that other operating systems have had in their text shells for ages

Perhaps someone knows the date from which you could highlight single lines as single lines in the commad prompt for linux / mac?

The first time I tried Linux on my desktop was in ~ 1998, I believe it was Mandrake and the terminal had all of these "improvements".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WAHFsAboTY

>implying PowerShell is new

Finally!

Now we only need non-trivial tab completion, command history that survives restart, and ssh in a prompt, and we can feel like the nineties have arrived.

I've been using Cmder lately, that's a good option

I love the look of Cmder, and I use it now and again, but it has a number of bugs. They fixed a few with the release two weeks ago, but there's still a few showstoppers for me.

Unless something recently changed it's still the same choices. I find PowerShell decent but I wish it could do full screen properly.

Did you try out the technical preview? You can do full screen now properly. You also get copy&paste working like it should and some other stuff as well.

Installing msysgit will give you SSH at the DOS prompt

And now with line selection!

If you are happy with Putty, your probably not that an advanced user. But anyway: Using ConEmu I've been happy for years. Using cygwin or msysgit below makes all very smooth.

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