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Console is a Windows console window enhancement

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.

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Set up git bash to work with tabs on windows

I have installed console2 and git bash, my goal is to make git bash working with tabs , I have changed the target path on console setting to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i. When I open console it doesn't give me option for…
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How do I enable msysgit colored output when using console2

I'm having a hard time enabling git colored output on windows when using console2. To trick git I've already SET TERM = 'cygwin'. This enabled the colors from a standard cmd.exe prompt but not in console2. I've verified that console2 can see the…
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Use Console2 for Visual Studio debugging?

Is there a way to use the popular Console2 cmd.exe replacement for Visual Studio debugging? In other words, when I debug a console app under VS, I want it to use Console2 instead of cmd.exe.
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Can Console2 be used with Powershell?

I'm a big Console2 fan, and I've recently been introduced to the power of PowerShell. Is it possible to have the latter (aka the PowerShell interpretive shell) inside the former?
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console2 - how to make it fullscreen?

Is there any way to make console2 go fullscreen? I edit settings and increase window and buffer size but when I restart settings are reset to 63 rows in window size.
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conemu and console2 emulators not getting new path variable

I thought maybe it was a system issue but recently did a fresh install (win7 64bit) and a clean install of conemu (had same problem with both conemu and console2 on old win32 system). Also everything I find researching has to do with adding…
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How to wrap the bash shell from Github for Windows in Console2?

I'm trying to get the bash shell of Github for Windows to be wrapped by Console2. This is not as easy as I'd hoped. This is super easy with Git for Windows from git-scm.com. I know that I can use that bash shell with Console2 no problem and have…
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.bat file to open executable within Console2

I am aiming to create a .bat launcher that will execute a command line .exe program within Console2. My best guess would be that it should go something like: @echo off start "" Console.exe program.exe but all that does it open Console2. Please note…
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cygwin + console2 ctrl-c keyboard interrupt not working

I'm using console2 as my shell for cygwin and control-C is not working. I have made sure that control-C is not being used as a hotkey in my console2 settings. This is how I run cygwin from console2 D:\Programs\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i To…
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Suspending a process in bash running inside console2

In other terminals I would press Ctrl+z to suspend an application, often to then issue bg to send it into background. In console2 Ctrl+z does nothing, probably because the key combination has a different meaning in Windows. But is there a way to…
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console2 colors solarized

I am trying to use Solarized colors on a Windows 7 pc using Console2. I can't get the colors to work correctly though. I tried changing the entries in console.xml as suggested here. Is this all I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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How to create a shortcut for a tab in Console2?

In Console2, I have 2 tabs. The first is called "Console2" and it's the default tab. The second is called "Git Bash" and it's the Console2 replacement for Git Bash CMD. I would like to create a shortcut to the tab "Git Bash". So every time I click…
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How to make console2 open in a specific folder?

With cmd, I can do cmd /K cd /D "c:\repo" to open cmd in c:\repo How to do the same with console2 when using cmd as a shell?
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How do you get iPython to run on Console2?

How do you really get iPython to run on Console2? The instructions on the iPython site are not correct: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/IpythonOnConsole. (it says the Shell needs to be set to: cmd.exe /k "ipython") I verified that python.exe is in…
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Console2 and ConEmu - weird command prompt

Thank you very much in advance for helping. I'm a happy user of Cygwin and Mintty in Windows 7. But I always like to see what other options are out there. So I downloaded Console2 and ConEmu. First step is, always, is runinng bash. That was easy.…
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