On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:08:56 +0200 "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 23:56:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > wrote: > > Personally, I find the Windows/DOS > > shell to be completely unusable and use git-bash when I'm > > cmd.exe is indeed painful to use. I blame it's weird history and > tab completion. It has them so you want to use it.... but they > are weird. > I think they help make cmd.exe usable, but you're right, they are weird. And limited. The history does at least seem to have a certain logic to it, but in practice I usually find it more confusing than bash's or, uhhh, whatever BSD's default shell is. In fact, after I got over my initial shock (only a few minutes), I started to grock the logic of BSD's shell history, and I'm starting to like it more than bash's history. So easy to call up the command you want, even if it's old: Just type the beginning and then "up/down" automatically filters to that prefix. Nice. The redirection system has some interesting points too, although I'm not familiar enough with that aspect yet (as opposed to bash) to really judge it. > The commands don't bother me, the different quoting and (lack > of?) looping don't bother me - I prefer to just use D for > anything more than a line or three of shell anyway - but the > history and compleition are really annoying. > Yea. And as far as the commands go, it's easy enough to install the Windows port of all the basic Gnu tools. So I can tee stuff, and pipe to grep and such just as well on Windows as I can on Linux. And piping/redirection works fine on cmd.exe, pretty much identical to bash actually. So I'm actually fairly comfortable on the Windows command line, all things considered. My biggest beefs are that I can't resize the terminal's width or copy-paste without the mouse, but there's a million alternate front-ends to cmd.exe which do that stuff just fine. I even have a couple installed, I'm just too lazy to change my habit of always reaching for cmd.exe ;)
