Comments on: A better command line for Windows? http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/ Kevin Dangoor on Software Development Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JMM http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-210028 JMM Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:35:50 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-210028 As noted twice above, emacs offers a shell mode accessible via C-x shell. If you already use emacs I can't think why you would use anything else for your Windows command shell. I use xemacs and with it all editing commands are available; command history is available as C-upArrow; full sessions of commands can be saved as files; data or errors or any cmd output can be cut and paste to other apps easily; macros can be written to automate command functions (picture creating a macro in about 30 seconds to execute the same command against a file full of data parameters) and so on. The only downside is for people who don't know it, emacs comes with a definite learning curve. As noted twice above, emacs offers a shell mode accessible via C-x shell. If you already use emacs I can’t think why you would use anything else for your Windows command shell. I use xemacs and with it all editing commands are available; command history is available as C-upArrow; full sessions of commands can be saved as files; data or errors or any cmd output can be cut and paste to other apps easily; macros can be written to automate command functions (picture creating a macro in about 30 seconds to execute the same command against a file full of data parameters) and so on.

The only downside is for people who don’t know it, emacs comes with a definite learning curve.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-208885 Jeff Thu, 29 May 2008 05:30:32 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-208885 http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ Wow ging... this is the BEST command prompt for Windows period. You really have to get in there and configure it but I was seriously impressed. I was also able to download the Gnu tools for Windows and a port of Bash. I can choose a normal DOS window or I can launch Bash in another tab. At work, I can make a Cygwin tab and have them all going at the same time with color ls listings and everything. I love the transparent background and tabs. Nice. Reminds me of Konsole. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

Wow ging… this is the BEST command prompt for Windows period. You really have to get in there and configure it but I was seriously impressed. I was also able to download the Gnu tools for Windows and a port of Bash. I can choose a normal DOS window or I can launch Bash in another tab. At work, I can make a Cygwin tab and have them all going at the same time with color ls listings and everything.

I love the transparent background and tabs. Nice. Reminds me of Konsole.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-207145 Andrew Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:20:38 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-207145 And Puttcyg has ClearType support, no transparency though. Supports many character sets, UTF-8 included. Try Console2 for transparency. And Puttcyg has ClearType support, no transparency though. Supports many character sets, UTF-8 included. Try Console2 for transparency.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-207144 Andrew Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:19:38 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-207144 Cygwin users don't forget Puttycyg--you won't have to monkey around with setting up ssh servers and logging in locally, much easier. Cygwin users don’t forget Puttycyg–you won’t have to monkey around with setting up ssh servers and logging in locally, much easier.

]]> By: jc http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-184408 jc Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:51:26 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-184408 Anyone find anything similar the Terminal on Mac OS X? With nice font smoothing, and transparency. And decent copy paste support.. Windows CMD.exe is a friggin abomination. WTF is up with Microsoft... why can't anyone make a decent one? Anyone find anything similar the Terminal on Mac OS X? With nice font smoothing, and transparency. And decent copy paste support..

Windows CMD.exe is a friggin abomination. WTF is up with Microsoft… why can’t anyone make a decent one?

]]> By: A better command line for Windows? at Blue Sky On Mars http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-156788 A better command line for Windows? at Blue Sky On Mars Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:06:50 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-156788 [...] http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/ Tags: windows, cli, shell, scripting(del.icio.us history) [...] [...] http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/ Tags: windows, cli, shell, scripting(del.icio.us history) [...]

]]> By: Roi http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-103386 Roi Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:51:21 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-103386 to BRPXQZME, i use the same way you did: SSH server on cygwin, and putty as a console. but how do you make graphical applications run? for example, if i type notepad on the windows cmd, a notepad window pops up. over ssh it won't work. thanks to BRPXQZME,
i use the same way you did: SSH server on cygwin, and putty as a console.
but how do you make graphical applications run? for example, if i type notepad on the windows cmd, a notepad window pops up. over ssh it won’t work.

thanks

]]> By: Dan http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-89403 Dan Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:17:17 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-89403 Regarding the little utilities that make Unix so great, I've been using <a href="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Unxutils</a> for a couple of years now. It's so nice to have ls, grep, and those other utilities under Win32. Some of them are a little quirky but overall it's much better than vanilla cmd.exe. I also enabled tab-completion in cmd.exe (I don't remember exactly how, but a google search should reveal it) which is nice. It automatically fully expands the first match so it's a little different than bash, but overall this system is a lot more lightweight than trying to run something like cygwin all the time. Regarding the little utilities that make Unix so great, I’ve been using Unxutils for a couple of years now. It’s so nice to have ls, grep, and those other utilities under Win32. Some of them are a little quirky but overall it’s much better than vanilla cmd.exe. I also enabled tab-completion in cmd.exe (I don’t remember exactly how, but a google search should reveal it) which is nice. It automatically fully expands the first match so it’s a little different than bash, but overall this system is a lot more lightweight than trying to run something like cygwin all the time.

]]> By: ging http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-78580 ging Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:13:40 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-78580 http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

]]> By: BRPXQZME http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-62693 BRPXQZME Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:18:30 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/03/07/a-better-command-line-for-windows/#comment-62693 I'm surprised that nobody mentioned what I've done for years! Start up a Cygwin SSH server and use PuTTY for the terminal. Weird, convoluted, and painful, but not as much as Windows usually is to me. I don't mind typing the password, either; others among us may be interested in using keys for this. Of course, there are better ways now. If you have Cygwin X... Make a shortcut to C:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\startxwin.bat. Bam, xterm! Copy and pasting with the mouse goes straight to the Windows clipboard. Moreover, with KDE4 on the horizon, there's a good chance that we may see Konsole for Windows not under X reasonably soon. I'll love that if and when it happens. I’m surprised that nobody mentioned what I’ve done for years!

Start up a Cygwin SSH server and use PuTTY for the terminal. Weird, convoluted, and painful, but not as much as Windows usually is to me. I don’t mind typing the password, either; others among us may be interested in using keys for this. Of course, there are better ways now.

If you have Cygwin X…

Make a shortcut to C:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\startxwin.bat. Bam, xterm! Copy and pasting with the mouse goes straight to the Windows clipboard.

Moreover, with KDE4 on the horizon, there’s a good chance that we may see Konsole for Windows not under X reasonably soon. I’ll love that if and when it happens.

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