Re:Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
by cryptonector on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @10:18PM
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I think u/paulie_a is just asking for a better shell. If cmd can't be made better, then make a new one.
Re:Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
by cwyers on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:47AM
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That's Powershell.
Re:Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
by paulie_a on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:37AM
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Exactly, I understand there are different underlying concepts and systems to the front end and what it interacts with. It just seem incredible that windows is basically stuck with a windows 95 interface for a shell.
cmd.exe is a shell, and that's the guy that's parked.
conhost.exe is a terminal, and that's under active development, though it's slower than something like VsCode, because we can't just go adding features as we see fit, we have a LOT of back compat we still need to support.
Fortunately, conpty will allow for the creation of new terminal applications on Windows. If you're looking for a better shell experience on windows, I can point you to powershell or even [yori](http://www.malsmith.net/yori/), which looks pretty cool