The windows terminal (the user-interface around text-applications like cmd.exe) really sucks.
There is so much that the Unix-style terminals do that the windows terminal apparently cannot do, for example what if you want to re-size the window in both dimensions by dragging the border. The Windows terminal only allows you to change it’s length.
Cut & Paste, on Linux or Unix, no problem – the selection box wraps around nicely so you can cut multi-line expressions. The Windows terminal (even in Quick-Edit mode) forces a bizarre rectangular selection box which is of no practical use – you have to re-format everything you copy in notepad!
What about the fact that any time I go into ‘edit’ mode it blocks the application – I’m sure there are people who want to be able to cut & paste without stopping the business-critical server.
I’m sure we can think of more faults if we put our minds to it – but lets not grumble.. what can we do to make this better?
Update: Just to clarify, I’m not looking to replace cmd.exe – Powershell & CygWin both provide better alternatives. I’m trying to replace the console application, the GUI that surrounds all text-applications in Windows.
I personally use Console2 with the Bash shipped with MYSYS-Git.
You can also use PuTTY and SSH to a real linux box 😉