Alternative Windows shells, besides CMD.EXE?

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SerMetAla picture SerMetAla · Jun 27, 2013 · Viewed 101.3k times · Source

I don't like CMD.EXE, the built-in Windows terminal. Among its problems:

  1. Hard to copy and paste.

  2. Hard to resize the window.

  3. Hard to open another window (no menu options do this).

  4. Seems to always start in C:\Windows\System32, which is super useless.

  5. Weird scrolling. Sometimes it scrolls down really far into blank space, and you have to scroll up to where the window is actually populated.

I love Cygwin, but the problem with Cygwin is that it runs different executables. The Cygwin Python is different than the Windows Python, they are linked against different libraries and stuff.

Thanks.

Answer

Eric Hartford picture Eric Hartford · Jun 13, 2016

I am a fan of Cmder, a package including clink, conemu, msysgit, and some cosmetic enhancements.

http://cmder.net/

https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder

https://chocolatey.org/packages/Cmder

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