hi, windows console lacks e.g. for a history function between sessions and many other things.
http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ clink offers Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe accordingly the licence file clink is GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 features are e.g. Features The same line editing as Bash (from GNU’s Readline library). History persistence between sessions. Context sensitive completion; Executables (and aliases). Directory commands. Environment variables Thirdparty tools; Git, Mercurial, SVN, Go, and P4. New keyboard shortcuts; Paste from clipboard (Ctrl-V). Incremental history search (Ctrl-R/Ctrl-S). Powerful completion (TAB). Undo (Ctrl-Z). Automatic “cd ..” (Ctrl-Alt-U). Environment variable expansion (Ctrl-Alt-E). (press Alt-H for many more…) Scriptable completion with Lua. Coloured and scriptable prompt. Auto-answering of the “Terminate batch job?” prompt. clink doesn't need installation, one possibilty would be "To establish Clink to an existing cmd.exe process, use “<install_dir>\clink.exe inject”" anyone with more unix/linux console experience may test on a simple windows console and may report if it would be worth to integrate in the winGRASS standalone installer? ----- best regards Helmut -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/improving-winGRASS-windows-command-line-tp5226402.html Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev