Comments on: Replacement for Standard Windows Console

By: maniAC

maniAC — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:16:30 +0000

I did not test it (since I am just coming to a Windows machine after 3 years of OS X and trying to find some stuff, like a decent console, tha’s how I came here), but there is also ‘mintty’ at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/ It uses the console code of PuTTY along with Win APIs in order to deliver a console replacement. I used to use Console2 a few years back and was very happy about it.

By: Paulie

Paulie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:20:55 +0000

Did you ever have any luck with getting IRB (and therefore script/console) working?

It was a deal-breaker for me and I’m still hunting for something that’s as usable as a Linux console on windows.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:05:08 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Not open source, but I’m not opposed to *gasp* paying for software if it’s quality software (seeing that I’m a programmer and all…) :)

Console2 just crapped out on me, and I’m a little frustrated. Think I’ll live with powercmd for awhile and see how it fits into my life.

I guess the primary question is whether it supports cygwin bash consoles.

About to hit the “help” key and Google bookmark to find out… :-)

Thanks so much for writing this blog!

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Remplaza cmd, notepad y el explorador de window$ — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:25:18 +0000

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By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:27:05 +0000

Another thing that I discovered in PowerCmd: Ruby's command-line interpreter irb can't run. I described it in the PowerCmd support forum. Not able to run irb means also that "ruby script\console" does not run

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:45:26 +0000

To follow the discussion on autocompletion and window size mentioned in my previous comment, see the PowerCmd support forum: * Tab completion usability thoughts * PowerCmd should remember window size and position

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:32:36 +0000

Because “rakefile” is one of the file under “actionmailer”, if you press “ENTER”, I assume you are accepting the auto-completion. If you are going to finish the commands without accepting the autocompletion, you can press “ESC” and then “ENTER”, or if you have parameters for “rake”, you can simply press “SPACE” to stop autocompletion for “rake”.

If “rake test” is you frequently used command, you can define it as a “tool” on quick launch bar, and use Ctrl+F1( or Ctrl+F2 …, depending on the position in quick launch bar) to access it quickly.

I hope it could be helpful.

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:21:36 +0000

Just received an update from Paul at PowerCmd, that they released an update that fixes the problem. And it does. This is great news, so I’m upgrading my trial to a paid version.

Maybe I should also mention the minor things like
* window should remeber with/height next time I open PowerCmd
* change default setting for autocomplete away from automatic. it can be annoying when executing a command has the same name as the start of a file/folder in current directory.

An example of the latter is running the ruby command “rake” in directories that have a file called Rakefile (which is default). This way, autocomplete captures the ENTER key and autocompletes “rake” into “rakefile”.

Very annoying. So I hope these two things can also change soon.

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:20:00 +0000

Just got this reply, which means PowerCmd has fixed the bug for next version. I’m really impressed with this kind of customer support.

Hi Jesper,

I think I am lucky to have your detailed steps to reproduce the defect. It has been fixed now.

This defect has been there since the first version of PowerCmd. I greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Paul