Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· maumagau

Decent Windows Console

  1. Install GIT-scm http://git-scm.com/

Run Git and included Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt

Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings

  1. Install Console2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

In Console2: edit > settings > Console

Shell: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i"

Startup dir: [Your root code folder]

Follow https://github.com/tstone/console2-monokai to get monokai colour scheme

Behaviour: Tick "Copy on select" & "Copy newline character > Unix"

Hotkeys: Set copy/paste to ctrl+shift+c/v, Set New Tab 1 to ctrl+t

  1. Restart Console2.

  2. Profit

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but is it better than Cygwin?

over 1 year ago ·

I haven't looked at Cygwin properly before. It looks a lot more powerful and extendible. I'll have to look in to configuring it though, it doesn't seem as simple as Console2.

over 1 year ago ·