Friday, July 13, 2007

Enamoured with Console

Face it.  The windows command line interface has always sucked.  Maybe that’s why most Windows users don’t use it…

Lately I’ve become enamoured with Console, the open-source replacement for the basic Windows command prompt.

The reasons I like it?

  • Tabbed interface
  • Alpha Transparency
  • Support for lots of colors and fonts (Consolas kicks ass)
  • Integration with cygwin

Seriously, now…  which looks better?

This….

Console

or this….

Cmd

 

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Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:04:08 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
This is the second really cool tool that I have used based on your recommendation. I saw you at the HDNUG meeting and after that I started using e. Now I am hooked on Console. Thanks for the awesome recommendations!
Rhonda Tipton | rtipton12AT NOSPAMgmail dot com
Saturday, July 14, 2007 8:06:53 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
You're welcome!
Ben Scheirman | subdigitalAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
Saturday, July 14, 2007 8:11:47 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Yeah, I've always wondered why the windows command prompt is essentially worthless. Why didn't they spend like 9 minutes porting BASH or something like that.

In other news, my favorite command prompt on windows is a putty shell into the localhost ssh server provided by my cygwin install.
James Thigpen
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