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Windows 10 console slightly less horrid than before


https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview/

tl;dr:

0. The console window is now resizable.  Like, by dragging on the window edges.  You know, like in Windows 2.0.  Wow!  :)

1. Text selection and pasting now works line-by-line, not as a block of unrelated lines.  ...Just like every *ix terminal program since forever.

2. Extensive keyboard text editing.  It's not up to the standards of xterm plus Bashâs emacs mode, but itâs far better than they had before.

3. Keyboard copy/paste, in Windows-native flavor (Ctrl-C/V/X) and xterm flavor (Ctrl/Shift-Ins).  Unfortunately, no xterm-like mouse copy/paste.

Iâm not giving up mintty and Bash, but itâs nice to know the occasional dip into cmd.exe wonât be such a sharp shock.

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