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The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

270 mentions on Hacker News by 202 people: 37 stories, 233 comments · first 2018-03-30 · latest 2026-10-22

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  1. The new Windows Terminal is looking very nice so far: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal You still have to build it from source in VS 2017 or 2019, and there are a few rough edges (currently only middle click for copy/paste), but it's a…
    comment by mikepurvis · 2019-06-17 · in The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
  2. You won't need any third party ones on Windows soon enough. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  3. ….readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstar... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29 [12] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  4. …Granted, conhost will stay for compatibility reasons and this is a new thing. But it's open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal . And according to the readme contains the source for conhost.exe too.
    comment by rndgermandude · 2019-05-08 · in Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
  5. As someone else replied, yes it does actually answer the question: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin...
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  6. …Terminal was just released yesterday, which might be a good option for you. It's even open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by timdorr · 2019-05-07 · in Hyper 3.0.0
  7. Of course: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin...
    comment by GrayShade · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  8. …recent years, in both software AND hardware. Also, I don't recall macOS terminal being open source. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by johnnyballgame · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  9. And here is MIT-licensed source code for it https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by chokolad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  10. From a quick search on the repository, the answer seems to be yes, it does support reflow: https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&...
    comment by strmpnk · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  11. It's open source, go find out yourself rather than guessing. https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  12. The public repo is here https://github.com/microsoft/terminal for those who want to try
    comment by mtw · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  13. It IS open source! https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal Split panes is one of the things I want to see get done next personally!
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  14. The terminal appears to be here, btw: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by pizza · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  15. The big annouce I mentioned above is that the source code is available open-source, at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal If you'd like to skip ahead before real previews are available, you could always compile from source :)
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  16. …all the time, but I certainly haven't heard this version before. Feel free to file it over at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal , and we'll triage as appropriate
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  17. Now that the announcement is official - yes, it's open source! https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  18. …be an issue tracker though. [0] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/05/06/developing... [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by humblebee · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  19. Seems like it will be at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal based on the blog post at https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/05/06/developing...
    comment by gschrader · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  20. …console still have that annoying "overscroll" behavior where you can scroll below the output? See: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/122
    comment by symlinkk · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  21. …felt incredibly responsive and they replied with a ton of details. > You can read the thread here: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/327 it's obvious Windows wasn't designed by people who care about minor details like typing…
    comment by WalterGR · 2019-03-21 · in Terminal latency (2017)
  22. …felt incredibly responsive and they replied with a ton of details. You can read the thread here: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/327
    comment by nickjj · 2019-03-20 · in Terminal latency (2017)
  23. …from the WSL Ubuntu terminal went into great detail on why their terminal is so fast. It's at https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/327 . The sad thing is, I've opened high input latency issues to a number of other terminals and the…
  24. …Microsoft's new command line push - cmd and the underlying console have had big updates recently * https://github.com/microsoft/console * https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/07/20/wind...
    comment by voltagex_ · 2018-12-12 · in Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
  25. …seems to be working on improving things on their end. Then I'll be able to make it readable. (Eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color... )
    comment by hornetblack · 2018-10-19 · in 12 Factor CLI Apps
  26. …able to fix yet, but if you want to change the console colors real quick, you can use ColorTool: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color... Also, it you want a tab-like experience, you could always try tmux. It's a…
  27. …or have feature requests, we're happy to take a look at them. You can file issues on [our github]( https://github.com/microsoft/console ) and we'll add them to our backlog
  28. Add an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/console/issues
  29. …get to it soon :) PS: While we're on the subject of colors, lemme quick throw out (Colortool)[ https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color... ]. It can be really helpful for quickly changing the color scheme of the…
    comment by zadjii · 2018-07-21 · in Inside the Windows Console
  30. Pty-like API sounds great. I assume you are referring to what's discussed here https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/57 .
    comment by Karliss · 2018-07-20 · in Inside the Windows Console
  31. …stream of the updates. It is not pretty. MS have been working to improve the situation though: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/57 The bizarre twist to this story is that it is going to be easier to add shell integration…
    comment by sime2009 · 2018-05-09 · in Eshell as a main shell
  32. Also the default Windows terminal is getting tabs: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/49 This is also fascinating: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/57 - a proper PTY for Windows, implemented by Microsoft, with the…
    comment by nailer · 2018-04-23 · in Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
  33. …Colors can be customized, but changing them is a PITA so we made (ColorTool)[ https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color... ] to make it a little easier Auto updating the prompt isn't possible in CMD unfortunately. I d