I find working on the command line in Windows frustrating, primarily because the console window is wretched to use compared to terminal applications on linux and OS X such as “rxvt”, “xterm”, or “Terminal”. Major complaints:
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No standard copy/paste. You have to turn on “mark” mode and it’s only available from a multi-level popup triggered by the (small) left hand corner button. Then copy and paste need to be invoked from the same menu
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You can’t arbitrarily resize the window by dragging, you need to set a preference (back to the multi-level popup) each time you want to resize a window
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You can only make the window so big before horizontal scroll bars enter the picture. Horizontal scroll bars suck.
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With the cmd.exe shell, you can’t navigate to folders with \\netpath notation (UNC?), you need to map a network drive. This sucks when working on multiple machines that are going to have different drives mapped
Are there any tricks or applications, (paid or otherwise), that address these issue?
