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…crash the processes running inside its tabs. And I have a lot of terminals open. An example issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16363 . This exact error message with different codes happened to me across many machines at…

comment by lostmsu · 2026-10-22 · in I can't believe PowerShell is good

…ogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-... (atlas release section) GitHub thread in question: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... And this gem: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm…

comment by tulio_ribeiro · 2026-08-03 · in Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

…Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e

comment by foepys · 2026-06-05 · in WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

…like PowerToys[1], or Windows Terminal[2]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2026-05-13 · in Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

…like typing on air. The Windows Terminal has this same feeling. 8 years ago I opened this issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327 and the creators of the tool explained how they do it. xterm in X11 has this feeling, ghostty…

comment by nickjj · 2026-03-02 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

…research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively." https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple…

comment by rasz · 2026-02-10 · in Another GitHub outage in the same day

…I spent a week investigating doing something similar with the Windows Terminal about 18 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16495#issuecomm... There's even more under the "Updates archive" expando in that post. It was…

comment by zadjii · 2025-11-11 · in The terminal of the future

…That combined with a couple of other PRs in 1.22 made some scenarios up to _16x_ faster[^2] [^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17510 [^2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

comment by zadjii · 2025-11-11 · in Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)

This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation". https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

comment by 9999_points · 2025-11-11 · in Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering

…same question for years but then Windows Terminal appears out of no where and is a real godsend. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by rimmontrieu · 2025-09-24 · in Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator

…takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf...

comment by Lammy · 2025-08-16 · in PuTTY has a new website

In fact, Windows Terminal has an open issue for the CC mode: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3656

comment by lostmsu · 2025-08-08 · in Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

…not, and handles this with two distinct entire state machines, one for input and one for output. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/terminal... I handled it with a few goto statements and a handful of flags. (-: *…

comment by JdeBP · 2025-07-18 · in Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

…John Carmack and Michael Abrash all the time. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdpLSXUXHY

comment by mustache_kimono · 2025-07-12 · in A software conference that advocates for quality

…research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively" from: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... Here is Casey banging out a more Unicode compliant terminal that looks more…

comment by jiggawatts · 2025-02-09 · in Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)

…any complexity in how it was built. [^0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687 [^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

comment by noch · 2024-11-07 · in Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

what about https://github.com/microsoft/terminal you use that too right? you better!

comment by grimgrin · 2024-09-10 · in Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell

…have already been open-sourced. For example, the console host component has been open sourced here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal And the FAT filesystem driver: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/mai... And…

comment by skissane · 2024-08-24 · in Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

Windows' terminal has integration directly with WSL2; https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by nusl · 2024-08-12 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm

cmd.exe or the new https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ?

comment by onehair · 2024-07-08 · in Entering text in the terminal is complicated

…good terminal and that my favorite terminal rendering libraries should Just Work on all of them [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by eminence32 · 2024-05-16 · in State of the Terminal

…employee recently (~6 months) opened a Github issue to discuss a command line editor for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440 > " Thank you so much to everyone for engaging with this feature exploration! Your…

comment by jodrellblank · 2024-05-08 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

…a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion: > I believe what…

comment by cstrahan · 2024-03-15 · in Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company

…but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host

comment by WorldMaker · 2024-03-12 · in Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0

…it easier to administer a Windows Server. They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor ( https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440 ) and now they are adding sudo. I would not be surprised if systemd or something like…

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2024-02-02 · in Windows 11 looks to be getting a key Linux tool added in the future

…employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm... Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either…

comment by chlorion · 2024-01-16 · in On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

…emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400 VS.Code's supports smooth scrolling in both the editor and terminal window, but it's off…

comment by NelsonMinar · 2024-01-04 · in Terminal Smooth Scrolling

…that Casey’s implementation isn’t even as fast as things could be. His optimizations are minor. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6zCgpCFlgggR...

comment by wredue · 2023-12-15 · in Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X

Assume its related to this: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.

comment by peteradio · 2023-12-15 · in Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X

…environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget." Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2023-12-14 · in Should Windows have a default CLI editor?

…DotNet Core: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr... Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331 Az module: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure... Etc...

comment by jiggawatts · 2023-10-27 · in Microsoft: Require user consent before sending any telemetry

Also, Microsoft has their own new terminal program. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by eej71 · 2023-10-08 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

Looks like there's some discussion about the first one in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15939

comment by pathartl · 2023-09-27 · in Windows Terminal Preview 1.19

Release notes can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.19.268... Some highlights: * Broadcast input to all the panes in a tab * Unfocused acrylic support * A new suggestions menu, for intellisense-like…

comment by zadjii · 2023-09-26 · in Windows Terminal Preview 1.19

…[2] has a repeatedly edited post by the Microsoft author where attitudes are on full display. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31372606 [2]…

comment by fbdab103 · 2023-09-23 · in Linux terminal emulators have the potential of being much faster

No. Something much better. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by sixothree · 2023-09-06 · in Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

…and the new windows terminal app[2]. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install [2] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by millzlane · 2023-08-26 · in Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

Yeah, just Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/

comment by sphars · 2023-08-08 · in Terminal Support for Emoji

…my sanity. This incident was Casey Muratori raising an issue about Windows Terminal performance: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761…

comment by pentium166 · 2023-06-20 · in Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

…better, including REP of Supplementary Plane characters, but now the converse is also true. (-: * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15390 PuTTY is used in thin disguise by all MobaXTerm users, of course.

comment by JdeBP · 2023-06-04 · in Still Love Telnet

Windows Terminal is probably your best bet if you want a clean default https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by riffic · 2023-06-04 · in Still Love Telnet

…by comparison, again? (-: Microsoft Terminal has a whole open GitHub issues system to itself. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/

comment by JdeBP · 2023-05-24 · in Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

…That was experimented with for a couple releases before being even _more_ substantially rewritten: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/14959 I hate that what was definitely intended as a joke originally turned into this massive…

comment by zadjii · 2023-05-24 · in Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

…Casey Muratori (a highly experienced game engine developer) and the Microsoft Terminal team. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 It really highlighted how crappy software gets written in large corporations. They told him…

comment by rShergold · 2023-05-24 · in Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

…bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by Jochim · 2023-05-11 · in Windows 11 in Svelte

…be how Microsoft employees allegedly prevented themselves from reading refterm source code, cf. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...

comment by taink · 2023-04-03 · in Saying Goodbye to GitHub

…codes for one. The end of the doc contains a pros & cons section of the alternative approaches. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...

comment by ibiza · 2023-04-02 · in Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals

…of INPUT_RECORD events. These are the events seen by console programs in Win32. It's quite nice. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...

comment by ibiza · 2023-04-02 · in Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals

And this is why I'm so interested in Sixel support for the Windows Terminal ( https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/issues/448 ) With that and a X server using sixels, there would no longer be a need for something as complex as wslg for…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-02-03 · in Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs

…conhost [0] are open sourced, that's why I believe some day far in the future it will happen. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

comment by LelouBil · 2023-01-20 · in No Start Menu for You