Console Reviews

I love this program! KDE's Konsole was my "killer app" for Linux, and I always missed it when forced to Windows. But this is a fantastic replacement, I take it wherever I go (I'm freelance) complete with my config file.

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This is a happy find! I have to use M$ Win7 and work, and one would think by now they would have made the console environment better. Thanks to this project, who cares what the pretty pixel-pushers at M$ do. Now I can use bash, my own console applications, cmd, whatever. This interface coupled with unixutils makes windows tolerable.

Finally a resizable console window application that works. PowerShell works with this as well - nice!

Just started using it. Note that this is a wrapper for the shell of your choice, not a shell in and of itself, which is just fine by me, I am content (not happy, but content) with windows cmd shell. I thank OpenID User (aka shill_for_4NT_etc) for whining about aliasing, I took 20 seconds to google and found the doskey command. Took a bit of digging to find how to select, copy and paste under Edit->Settings->Hotkeys->Mouse and a bit longer to figure out how it all worked, I haven't used x-windows in a long time. If you are looking for bash or ksh or ..., get cygwin or better yet, talk your boss into letting you develop on Linux/unix <cough>pigs flying<cough>, but if you are looking for a FREE tabbed console environment on Windows, this is looking very good. If you are a professional windows user who needs to be a power command line user go visit google 4NT and see if you think their product is worth the money.

I agree that the "looks" is better than the original DOS prompt but that's it. My biggest disappointment is the poorly designed transparency feature. The "transparency" feature makes the _entire_ window transparent, how useless isn't that on a scale? I really miss a terminal program that only makes the _background color_ partially transparent and leaves the text and the rest of the window alone (I'm running XP-x64) just like the terminal window in Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris. I miss the capability of making aliases so you don't have to enter entire paths to launch software. It should be possible to enter say, alias VLC="C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" or "alias SHOW=rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen %@full[%1]" (the %@full[%1] is a dynamic environment variable that parses the input argument "%1", which is a file with the full path through the "%@full[]" function. The "@" indicates that it is a function that is evaluated). I also miss the capability of accessing certain parts of settings in Windows directly by a single command. It would be great if one could open for example the "Explore available devices" in the bluetooth neighborhood with a command without having to click through a lot of time consuming menus. I miss colordir so that the "dir" command displays directories and files of different file types in highlighted ANSI16 colors or why not ANSI 256 (http://www.mudpedia.org/wiki/Xterm_256_colors)? I miss the capability of entering directory names into the prompt as if they were commands instead of entering "cd <dirname>". I also miss the capability of entering "..." instead of cd ..\.. or "...." instead of cd ..\..\.. or "....." instead of cd ..\..\..\.. and so on. I also miss the capability to modify the display of the prompt so that the path displayed between the x:\ and the "> " is shortened with an ellipsis ( "..." ). For example the command prompt could look like this: "3.C:\...\My Documents > " where the "3" indicates the directory depth from the root. Moreover, this prompt is in different colors. the "3" is bright green, the first "." is bright white and so is the ">" at the end. The shortened path is in red color and the text entered at the prompt is blue. Without these above mentioned features that I miss I can currently not recommend Console as there are better MS-DOS prompt replacements available such as 4DOS, 4NT and Take Command. What I also like about 4NT is that I can use it as a shell over SSH and benefit from all the above mentioned features although it wouldn't be very useful to launch programs that use GUI over SSH.

I have satisfied with Console 2 functionality. Why Windows does not integrate this into the system? :)

Great tool for running all of my shells in one place.

Kicks arse, especially in conjunction with PyCmd!

great tool indeed :)), enough with cmd. thank you guys

Works great with Cygwin, too!

Install it everywhere I go. Great tool!

Thanks! Very useful!

This console is AWSOMMMEEE! nice GUI and very handy PS no admin block.

Works great. I like the tabs. The screen write performance is not as good as mintty, but the tabs in console2 is a feature I really needed, so I am using console2. As an enhancement, I'd like to see full xterm-256color support. It seems only 16 color xterm support is partially supported.

Great tool for MS-Windows. As enhancement, I suggest that 'Console' should honor ANSI Escape Sequences like an Xterm.

Great app!

Great tool - and now part of our standard developer toolkit.

Exactly what I was looking for! Took me a second to figure out that you made it easier to "mark" (copy) text, very slick! If you had a paypal donate link I'd give $5. Chrome did tabs right, and Console is close enough! Thanks!

Simple, and (almost) perfect. The only thing I missing is history -> if you close the console / tab it will forget the commands you typed when you run console next time. Beside this it's all I need.

Awesome! :D

I love it a lot. Microsoft should learn innovation from these people.

It is soooo handy and behaves exactly like I would expect command console in a GUI environment to behave (like GnomeConsole), I wish that it was built right into Windows. Runs Powershell flawlessly. Though v2.00.147 has unexpectedly crashed on me a time or two.

Great to avoid cluttering the menu bar and I can configure Visual Studio consoles eg. 'cmd.exe /k ""c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" amd64' Thanks heaps!

Love it, every Windows machine get a copy.