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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. 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
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    Windows Console Tools
    story by MikusR · 2019-05-06 · 3 comments
  3. …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
  4. 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
  5. …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
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    Why the default WSL terminal is so fast and other commentary about low-level API
    story by fasm · 2019-03-23 · 11 comments
  7. …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)
  8. …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)
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    ColorTool – change Windows console color scheme (iTerm2 themes supported)
    story by dmit · 2019-02-09 · 0 comments
  10. …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…
    comment by nickjj · 2019-02-01 · in Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS
  11. …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
  12. …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
  13. …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…
    comment by zadjii · 2018-10-11 · in Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
  14. …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
    comment by zadjii · 2018-08-16 · in Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
  15. Add an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/console/issues
    comment by voltagex_ · 2018-08-16 · in Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
  16. …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
  17. 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
  18. …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
  19. 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
  20. …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
    comment by zadjii · 2018-03-30 · in Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner