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I tried both ConEmu (twice) and Console2 in the past, but both were too unstable for regular use. If someone can convince me that the situation has markedly improved, I might try again, but I guess I'll just wait until we upgrade to Windows 10 at my workplace (which they say is any day now).

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ConEmu does seem to have gotten a lot more stable in the last few months

I'll confirm this. During a previous project, it would sometimes crash, or history would get wonky, but I've not seen any of those behaviors while working on my current project. I generally am just using the terminal to run tasks, so I'm not sure I qualify as a "power user."

I use ConEmu daily. I wouldn't call myself a power user (e.g. I never have more than five tabs open at once), but I do use it regularly for a number of tasks.

In the past, say, six months, I cannot remember having any trouble with it.

I'm using ConsoleZ now. It's the successor of Console2; I have had no problems with stability.

I use ConEmu (actually cmder - ConEmu with some out-of-box enhancements) every day at work under Windows 7 Pro. Absolutely no issues to report.

Happy ConEmu plus clink user for at least a year, I suspect more, but I don't keep track, I just move on.

Hmm, just installed clink 0.4.7 (with autorun disabled for now). "clink autorun --help" consistently crashes. But at least it hasn't taken down the console yet, so I guess I'll try it out for some time. It's really a nice concept.

mmmrrrm, don't know, don't remember. I do know that when I start ConEmu, I have to ctrl-alt-J to get command line features. So maybe I had trouble with autorun too? Don't remember.

  > clink autorun --help
  Clink v0.4.4 [git:a60c0a] Copyright (c) 2014 Martin Ridgers
  http://mridgers.github.io/clink
  
    -i, --install         Installs an autorun entry for cmd.exe.
    -u, --uninstall       Uninstalls an autorun entry.
    -s, --show            Displays the current autorun settings.
    -v, --value <string>  Sets the autorun to <string>.
    -h, --help            Shows this help text.
    -- <args>             Pass <args> that follow '--' on to Clink.

  >clink autorun --show
  native : "C:\Program Files (x86)\clink\0.4.4\clink" inject --profile "~\clink"
   wow64 : "C:\Program Files (x86)\clink\0.4.4\clink" inject --profile "~\clink"

I've tried one or both earlier. Didn't quite get what the difference is. (Maybe did not check well enough at the time.) Are they related tools, or is one a substitute for the other?

https://mridgers.github.io/clink/

"Clink combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the well-known Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions."

https://conemu.github.io/

"ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features."

I have been using ConEmu since December and I am yet to run in issue. I use it with Gow and clink.

What issues did you face?

Crashes of the console, usually happening after executing a few commands. This was a few years ago, probably on WinXP, but could be Win7 (I'm on Win8.1 now).

I've been using ConEmu for a while and have had no issues with it as far as I can remember.

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