Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java

Re:Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java by mdaniel on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:19PM (#44465798)

I've heard of this %PATH% thing which allows the user to control where they place executables https://github.com/sebkur/forceterm/blob/release-1.1.0/src/m...

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Re:Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java by alganet on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:09PM (#44467087)

Trivia:

Windows also has %PATHEXT%. It's a set of executable extensions like bat, exe, com, cmd.

It is what allows calling `program` and reaching `program.exe`.

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Re:Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java by RonanSoleste on Friday July 04, 2025 @02:13PM (#44466708)

Also not very platform independent

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Re:Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java by sebkur on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:02PM (#44467870)

Well, it does check if we are on Windows just one line before: https://github.com/sebkur/forceterm/blob/release-1.1.0/src/m...

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Re:Show HN: A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java by sebkur on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:04PM (#44467879)

hmm, I agree, this is pretty hard-coded. It should work for a default installation of git-bash, but of course, the user could have chosen a different location at install time.

I'm not even sure how popular git bash is on Windows, I vaguely remember cygwin might be something many user that care to use a terminal might have installed?

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