Glenn asked:
>>
>> (They have taken the pleasant activity of working at a console and
>> made it miserable drudgery. In cmd.exe, I had to be careful to use
>> unix find rather than cmd.exe's find. In the power-shell, I am
>> finding that more unix commands are over-ridden, for example, diff;
>> I think I'll just prefix all my unix-utility commands with u: ufind,
>> ugrep etc.)
>
> Is there any compensating benefit to using PowerShell, to
> overcome the "miserable drudgery" that you describe? Why not
> just stick with cmd.exe?
Before answering the question, there is a bug in the .pl file-asssociation.
If the path to the .pl file has spaces so that one needs to use
" " then the .pl association is not recognized!
I was not clear about what was "miserable drudgery". I don't mind
renaming my unix utilities with the prefix u. It is the
complicated way of, say, setting an environment variable that's
painful -- but I don't do that very often.
I have just been using PowerShell for a few hours, and so far
I can continue to use it as cmd.exe (except for the above bug).
The one big benefit over cmd.exe is being able to use / in path
names. I never got used to \.
Also, _if_ the console/terminal PowerShell Plus supports lots of
colors, I will be able to use console vim (rather than gvim).
Today with the power-shell: Right-Click on short-cut to PowerShell
brings a drop-down menu:
-> Properties
Pick Compatibility Tab
Hit [X] Run in 256 colors
However, the result was that colors on the entire desktop got
messed up! For example, the "Olive Green" theme became
steel-gray! So I switched back to 16 colors.
--Suresh
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