Hey there, I'm actually on the windows console dev team. Any specific features you're looking for from iTerm2? There's already hundred of items on the backlog, but I'm always curious what things in particular people are looking for.
Auto updating the prompt isn't possible in CMD unfortunately. I do believe it's possible in powershell, but that's not my cup of tea. I do have a batch script that gets the branch and re-sets my prompt. You could create a git.bat that calls such a script on every git command, or like me, create `vf.bat` that I use to cd and update the prompt at once.
Also in this picture: cmd.exe running inside tmux in WSL. Coming soon to Insider's Builds near you
posh-git is a great powershell module that shows your current branch, has customizable colors, and adds tab completion to git commands. I think that stuff should stay as add-ons rather than be built into the console host.
Yes amazing because for the best part of 20 years, nothing significant has changed and now it’s functional enough to get work done.
And I don’t care about the *nix implementations because the first thing I do is start tmux and use that. Same as I only care for the Linux userland which is what WSL gives me.
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Hey there, I'm actually on the windows console dev team. Any specific features you're looking for from iTerm2? There's already hundred of items on the backlog, but I'm always curious what things in particular people are looking for.
Can't answer iTerm2, but I use Cmder daily. I don't think the Windows Console can (as I want for day-to-day usage)
1) show the Git branch in the prompt 2) display nice colours 3) open multiple tabs
Looking forward to being proved wrong :) Cmder works well for me but I'd rather have something core to Windows to use instead.
Do you mean any of the following: https://i.imgur.com/zyC4A73.png
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 do believe it's possible in powershell, but that's not my cup of tea. I do have a batch script that gets the branch and re-sets my prompt. You could create a git.bat that calls such a script on every git command, or like me, create `vf.bat` that I use to cd and update the prompt at once.
Also in this picture: cmd.exe running inside tmux in WSL. Coming soon to Insider's Builds near you
posh-git is a great powershell module that shows your current branch, has customizable colors, and adds tab completion to git commands. I think that stuff should stay as add-ons rather than be built into the console host.
If it's any consolation what you guys have done with windows 10 is amazing. Big thumbs up here.
Thanks :) We do what we can, and we're certainly not about to stop trying to impress.
Amazing? Resizing, some better keyboard shortcut integration, and transparency?
It's still ages behind *nix OSs.
Yes amazing because for the best part of 20 years, nothing significant has changed and now it’s functional enough to get work done.
And I don’t care about the *nix implementations because the first thing I do is start tmux and use that. Same as I only care for the Linux userland which is what WSL gives me.
And yet you don't see users leaving in droves for that fancy terminal action. I wonder why? Hmmm...
Not from iTerm2 but I really enjoy the speed and features of urxvt. Any chance Windows will implement a similar fast open source console?