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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by badman_ting on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:39PM (#6058636)
Agreed about Cygwin. I used it for years out of necessity, but I don't like when people suggest it as a remedy for Windows's anemic command line. Cygwin adds a tiny amount of what is needed. For one thing, Cygwin can't do anything about the terminal emulator, which is very weak.
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Re:Making a better, prettier, more functional Windows Comman... by rbanffy on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @01:09PM (#6058809)
Are you using MinTTY or the native cmd.exe-like terminal? MinTTY is based on PuTTY code and is quite reasonable (and a major improvement over the standard Windows way.
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