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Cmder – Portable console emulator for Windows

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It's nice but slow and limited, I used it for years until I discovered Babun:

http://babun.github.io/

Yeah, I find it slow as well (not babun, haven't tried it yet). ConEmu always did the job for me, but I might give babun a go.

I am already a heavy user of Conemu, which this one apparently wraps. What new would I get by switching to this? What changes have it made to Conemu that one might like? I'm curious, always looking for a better experience.

Basically a prettier experience by default. If you've already customized Conemu to be prettier than default, you may not care, but if not, it is quite a difference. Also add Clink, which gives you a bunch of cmd tools that are defaults on Linux.

Cmd only gives you bash style keybinding, the "bunch of cmd tools" you are referring to is from mysysgit.

Anyway, neither of cmd or mysysgit is coming from cmder, and ConEmu has already made it straightforward to use these "add-ins". For me cmder is just a set of configs wrapping around ConEmu.

There's a lot of comments here for which I want to reply: "Have you tried MobaXterm? It can do want you want, and much more". But I don't want to be too imposing, so I'll just leave it here:

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/features.html

My own minimalistic approach for adding normal selection and resizing on top of an existing console window.

https://github.com/kobilutil/wincon

It is a 120kb single file executable, with no dependencies. No install, no setup and no config needed.

/shameless plug

Is that 120kb UPXed?

Will it host Powershell?

Yes, 120KB uncompressed. It is statically linked using the VS2013 toolchain.

I test it on WindowsXP and use it on my Window7 dev machine. And yes, Powershell works as well.

If you use PSReadLine, note that it sets the console to grab mouse events (like Far Manager does for example), so hold the override key (<ctrl>) when selecting or use RevokeMouseInput.ps1 script mentioned here:

https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/issues/detail?id=1...

see here as well

https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/issues/197

Have you thought about asking the ReactOS or Outercurve Foundation to sign your binary? This would get rid of a Smartscreen popup on Windows 8.

Thx for the idea. I'll check it out.

Up untill now wincon have only been tested on WindowsXP and Windows7. I still need to add Windows8 to the test cycle.

I mean - NO it is not compressed. It is just a statically linked exe.

Sorry for the possible confusion.

53 kb UPXed!

Added to my bin\ folder.

Cmder is awesome. I use it as a better interface to msysgit (I don't find myself needing to actually work in `cmd.exe` much anymore).

I switched to it from Console2 pretty recently (last week, actually) and only have good things to say. I only wish I could use it with zsh without having to buy into the rest of cygwin (I find msys to be much better in nearly every way).

So I would use Cmder instead of the standard console cmd.exe?

When would I use msysgit? Is it a competitor to Cygwin or does it solve a different problem?

You might. That's it's default configuration.

I'm not really an expert on the differences between msys and cygwin, but i believe msys solves a subset of the problems solved by cygwin, while remaining much closer to how the OS actually functions (instead of keeping windows and unix totally separate, it does its best to merge them).

Msysgit is part of the standard git distribution on windows, I believe, and so many people already have it installed. It comes with a bash-like shell, which is what I'm talking about in the post above.

Great tool guys. something that was missing in windows for a long long time and we used to wish for something like this. i really love *nix terminal (especially mac terminal) and the best i could bake was putty with a monokai theme. but this is really cool tool.

This looks great, but I don't see tabs as a feature of this, which is one of the really big things I miss when I have to work on Windows (which is thankfully quite rarely). I usually have a gnome terminal with a half dozen or more tabs (some named, some just in their usual locations) open when I'm working. I could use screen or tmux (and do when I work remotely), but tabs require less mental bandwidth, and maybe requires a different brain "core" for spatial processing (I dunno how these things work...but tabs feel less like work than cycling through screens in screen or tmux).

This does support tabs in the default configuration. Ctrl+T opens new ones.

Conemu, which this builds upon, has tabs. And the Keyboard shortcuts section lists keys for tab management.

I can recommend using conemu with Cygwin minty. This gives you tabbed terminal, ssh command completion on. Windows. I probably should write a blog entry about this setup. Also native git. Do try it with Vagrant also.

I use this at work, but I still miss a proper Linux terminal.

I love cmder and my whole team is starting to use it now.

Only thing I miss is broadcasting keystrokes to multiple panes when i'm ssh'ed to multiple servers

Can we use clusterssh on windows?

I have SecureCRT set up with Cygwin running locally. Just customize your bash shell like normal, you get the best of both worlds.

I love Cmder but went back to Console2 because I find it almost impossibly confusing to configure (there are 900 settings) and more importantly, it occasionally stops accepting input for ~5 seconds.

I hope the Windows 10 native console improvements are as good as they sound.

Cmder was really awesome , the only problem I had with it is that it has so many settings , like tabing , and there is no way for disabling them. But as far as I can tell , Cmder is excellent tool , despite of my specific view about terminal application.

You can disable the display of the tab bar in ConEmu.

Main -> Tabs -> "Don't Show".

There is another setting to always start a new instance of ConEmu, which together seem like it might give you what you want.

For me, Cmder was the one app that helped me easily transition back to Windows from OSX.

My only gripe with it is that it regularly loses keystrokes when using Autohotkey for text expansion.

Nice to see Conemu with GNU Readline. Search history and auto completion are the features I always missed in Conemu. Thumbs up to the developers (of Clink as well).

I've been using this about two years and love it.

Sorry, a bit off topic but can you share that pixelated cloud background from the main image? It looks really nice.

The landing page is really light on details.

Is the color selection based on ANSI escape sequences? Does it handle UTF-8?

Wait, so your github repo just has binaries in it? It doesn't seem like you're doing it right.

? It does seem to contain everything. Note that it really is just a software package and wraps other software that of course doesn't live in that repo. (Conemu, git)

Cmder is great, I only wish I had more use for it

Do you do anything in msysgit? You can configure it to launch a gitbash shell instead of a cmd.exe one.

Not with any great frequency, really.

It ended up replacing most of explorer for me when I made the switch to Windows 8.

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