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Awesome! I don't use Windows except for gaming, but its good to know something like this exist. Just to fill up last information gap, is there any good terminal emulator on windows? I remember using something that came with Cygwin long time ago, and it was slow (I think I used Vim on that).

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mintty comes with cygwin and msys2. It's the one I use. Other people have recommended other terminal emulators like ConEmu, but those have varying (subpar) levels of Unicode/color support.

I also use mintty. It's not great, but I haven't seen anything better (it seems that ConEmu is optimized for cmd.exe, not bash).

I'm really using `tmux` inside `mintty` so I have an emulation of tabs inside one terminal. It's not super-convinient, requires the user to setup his/her own .tmux.rc, but it gets the job done (still orders of magnitude better than cmd.exe or "even" powershell).

ConEmu "is optimized" for Windows. The problem is that cygwin is not optimized for Windows.

But there is cygwin connector: https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsysConnector.html

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