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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness by dspillett on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:04AM (#35469290)
> The terminal has been (probably intentionally) neglected by ms for a long time,

I don't think it is an intentional lack of care, just a lack of care. Internally MS devs affected by the appalling state of the console just did what the rest of us did and installed an alternative.

> but as far as I know this has mostly been fixed on modern windows versions.

Ish. The default console for powershell is better, but a lot of improvements you might be thinking are in there are in fact only in Windows Terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal) which is not currently included by default.

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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness by cmovq on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:08PM (#35471327)
> you might be thinking are in there are in fact only in Windows Terminal

A lot of those changes are in ConsoleHost, so Windows 10 and 11 get those improvements (like VT100 sequences) in cmd.exe as well

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