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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by forgottenpass on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:43AM (#6057599)
Powershell still uses the same terrible terminal emulator that cmd.exe does. This article is mostly about terminal emulators, and using windows shells for unixy stuff. Its not cmd.exe sepcific, I use Console2 for powershell terminals at home.
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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by ygra on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:45AM (#6057923)
The Windows console isn't a terminal emulator, though, and never tried to be (ansi.sys notwithstanding, as that was a DOS remnant). I guess what most people actually want isn't a terminal emulator (which is kinda useless with the Windows Console API anyway) but just the nicenesses of a resizable console they have come to expect on Linux.
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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by mc32 on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:59AM (#6057668)
I find Conemu[1] even better than Console2. It's very configurable, and I think it's actively developed.

[1]https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by dman on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:57AM (#6057986)
I wonder if its time for microsoft to think about supporting a unix userland.
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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by rainforest on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:38AM (#6058290)
They already do/did [1,2]. Curiously there used to be a POSIX subsystem (alternative to Win32) but that was removed in favour of SUA.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix [2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by tanzam75 on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:04PM (#6058454)
Services for UNIX has been deprecated. It is no longer being kept up-to-date with new Windows versions.

That's because the primary purpose of these tools was not to provide a UNIX environment for users. Rather, it was to provide a transition to Win32 for developers of UNIX applications. In version 1, you'd move the UI over to Windows, and leave the back-end mostly unchanged. In version 2, you'd then rewrite the back-end for the Windows API.

At this point, if you haven't already ported to Win32, then you're probably running on Linux.

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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by kickingvegas on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:29PM (#6059319)
Was about to mention Interix. I consider what Microsoft did with them to be truly a cautionary tale.
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