So it has a lot of flexibility, and you can have different shells in different tabs.Ġ1:20 It’s really handy and has all these modern terminal features that you’ll find in Linux and Mac.
I’ve already got it installed, but you can press the Install button to install that, and then you should get this new program called Terminal.Ġ1:08 And the nice thing about this terminal is that you can actually start Windows PowerShell, Command Prompt, and even other shells in it. There’s a couple other ones, like Windows Terminal Preview, Fluent Terminal, but this is the standard one. And if you’re on Windows 10, you won’t have this Terminal program.Ġ0:31 What you can do is you go go to the Microsoft store-it’s very easy to install-Ġ0:42 and then you can search for Terminal,Ġ0:49 and then you’ll be able to see Windows Terminal. So there’s a couple things that happened here.Ġ0:21 I’ve started PowerShell Core in a new program called the Terminal, the Windows Terminal. What’s better than Windows PowerShell is PowerShell Core, and I can actually start PowerShell Core from here, but there’s an even better program called Terminal, Windows Terminal. So, if you are on version 2004, for instance, you are fine.įor an easy-to-get, auto-updating version, install from the Microsoft StoreĬommand line package managers on Windows? Yes, please.00:00 Show us what’s even better than PowerShell. Windows Terminal requires at least Wind(build 18362). Run winver (in Powershell, CMD, or after ⊞-r). Any of the following will work well, but I have listed them in my order of preference.įirst, though, make sure your Windows 10 version is recent enough. There are many ways to install Windows Terminal. See the settings docs for details on what you can configure (yes, font face is one of them hello, Fira Code! Hello, Nerd Fonts!) Ctrl-, will open the settings file in your default text editor. Choose your "profile": you can have Powershell in one tab, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in another, CMD in another, an alternate WSL distro in another.Multiple tabs: Ctrl-Shift-t will open a new tab.There are many welcome features in the Windows Terminal. Multiple Tabs, Multiple Shells, User Configuration Made by Microsoft, and released under the open source MIT license.
Thankfully, we can do so much better than the Powershell window.Įnter the relatively new Windows Terminal. Open the Start Menu, type "Replace Command Prompt," and you should see the above setting. The Powershell window is much better, but still not comparable to the various terminal window options on Linux and Mac.īe that as it may, you probably want to make it easier to access Powershell rather than CMD with the ⊞-x keyboard shortcut, so: Once upon a time, the Windows command line was CMD, and it was horrible.
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