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I agree conhost is terrible - but they have finally made some improvements in Windows 10 [1]:

- Drag-to-resize

- Automatic text reflowing on resize

- Ctrl + X/C/V support for cut/copy/paste

- Selection that does line-wrapping

- Transparency

- A full-screen mode

  [1]: http://futurice.com/blog/a-saner-windows-command-line-part-1

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Ctrl+Key shortcuts aren't going to work in bash (at least not without breaking other important stuff) so I'm hoping they decide to make quickedit mode more usable someday.

Unfortunately I still think this is going to be kind of a shitshow as long as they keep the black box nature of conhost. The terminal apps OSX and most linux distros ship with are fairly bare-bones too and I doubt reprogrammable 256-color mode is on microsoft's roadmap.

"I doubt reprogrammable 256-color mode is on microsoft's roadmap..."

http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28...

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