On Sunday 22 March 2009 15:28:19 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[hackers-il] [Slightly OT] Improved MS-Windows Console - https://sourceforge.net/projects/console": > > Today I had to some work on one of my open-source projects on Windows. > > After using the default console window for a while, I thought I wanted to > > die. Then after searching Google for "windows console" I found this: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/console > > On Windows, I usually use cygwin, and run "zsh" as my console.
Well, zsh is not a console - it is a shell. Generally, you open a console window and on top of it run a shell like bash, zsh, Win32's cmd.exe, etc. The point of my link is that it is a FOSS program that replaces the hideous MSWin console window with a more decent alternative. On top of it you can run CMD.EXE , cygwin's bash and I presume that zsh too. (I didn't try, but I don't see why it shouldn't work). > This not > only do tab completion and history the way I want it, but is basically > the full shell I love on Unix and Linux, and I can use all the normal Unix > utilities (less, rm, etc.) and not their broken MS-Windows counterparts. I also prefer to use bash on cygwin, but: 1. Would still run it under this improved "Console". 2. Sometimes using bash/zsh on cygwin is not an option because it confuses MinGW32 and other native Win32 programs. I recently got an error when trying to build my program using MinGW32 because sh.exe was in the path. So I had to use CMD.EXE for that. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il