Please implement a tabbed command line window #2393
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I think the tool is called terminator for ubuntu. |
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umm, why not use tmux instead? |
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I only know tmux from using it while you can split the screen in more than one terminal. I want to have this functionality + to open a new tab with a new terminal, while you don't see the others. Like a new tab in a browser. Is this possible with tmux? The other thing of tmux is, I thought you have to know the tmux shortcuts to use it correctly. Only guessing. I saw it from a presentation that I have to use some shortcuts to use it. |
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This is our highest requested feature, and we've discussed it before on github at greater length. We're not ruling it out. I can't confirm or deny that work is being done on it. I can't commit to a timeframe. ... Though somehow it doesn't look like there's already an issue for this... Not really sure how that's possible, so I guess congrats on being the first to file it here :) |
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Wuhu, great. Thx :D |
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VScode will meet u need |
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So I just noticed there is a comment from user:bitcrazed saying "Would LOVE the console team to go to town on the mult-pane/tabbed interface and do something like this!!". It's from beginning of last year. I always thought he WAS the console team (in some capacity). Is he not or is the comment old? Also, I don't know what team you guys are, kernel or what but I think you should take over some kinda PowerUser/devexperience team and create a good tiling window manager for Windows, like i3 (as referred to my BitCrazed in the comment). Just my two cents lol, but seriously, do it! |
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@SRGOM - You are correct, @bitcrazed is a PM on the console team. There is a mix of console people and kernel people (like me) on this GitHub. |
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@benhillis Ok, cool. Trimonthly reminder (lol) that you're doing God's work by making WSL. Thank you! |
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@SRGOM - the pleasure is ours! It's so rewarding to work on a project that people find so useful, and are passionate about. This GitHub community has been pivotal to our success. |
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@benhillis great work. Really :) I use WSL every day. No need to install Linux or using a VM anymore :D |
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So what is the reason this hasn't been implemented yet, despite being a highly rated feature for years? Backwards compatibility? Not enough developers? No one cares to touchy decade old code? Or was someone afraid that it would confuse the users (don't remember in which exact context I heard the last argument, but it was something windows related - maybe tabbed explorer)? And yes: The WSL is great! |
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There are tools out there that can do this currently. The one that I use is ConEmu. What they call tasks is pretty much different programs to launch. They also have a task for bash on windows as below is copied from it but adds a param to execute zsh shell.
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As you can see it in my original post, I already mentioned it ;)
But it is to much boilerplate code, it is for more advanced usage, I don't need this, It should be simple as hell. |
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@Chris2011 would Hyper suit your needs? CTRL + SHIFT + T opens a new tab. |
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Maybe yes, but I don't want to use a 3rd-party-tool anymore like cygwin or babun shell or whatever, when we have it right now in Windows. I really like the idea of Hyper but I will use native bash here. But thx for the hint anyway :) |
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Here is my experience using tmux with WSL. It has all kinds of painting bugs. I also show using Gnome-Terminal with tmux. |
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BTW, since someone mentioned Hyper, I just spent some time evaluating it. On the surface, it looks totally awesome. It has the features I'm looking for: tabs, panes, clipboard, etc. Sadly, I found it too slow, especially when using it with vim. So I think we still need a good, high-performance, native console. It is the missing link in what could be a truly awesome Linux-on-Windows experience. And then people can stop buying Macs just because they want a *nix command line. |
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Here's my experience with WSL and Hyper.js |
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@kevinknowscs The problem with the up arrow key not working in ConEmu is #111, and that's fixed in insiders builds. Your concerns with tmux repainting incorrectly are definitely real, something that I should look at, though, you can usually hit Ctrl+B, R in tmux to force a repaint of the entire window, and that should solve anything weird you get from resizing. I use tmux as my daily driver, and it's really gotten a hell of a lot better since release. |
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There's a lot to like about Hyper.js; I especially like the fact that the configuration is just a .js file which can be versioned with the rest of my dot files. Unfortunately, there are two major short-falls for me: Ctrl+C doesn't function as expected with PowerShell (vercel/hyper#1121). In their defense, it looks like this might actually be an issue in win-pty, if not further upstream (rprichard/winpty#116). Aside from that, it doesn't appear to support 256+ colors on Windows (again due to limitations in winpty: rprichard/winpty#108). For now, ConEmu is the best option for me, though It's been crashing while attempting to open Vim on my home machine after installing some updates, which makes it impossible for me to use at the moment. |
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There is a lot to like about Hyper, yes, but it's so slow that doing anything non-trivial is not possible. An electron terminal app won't even come close to the performance of a native program like CMD/PS. ConEmu is the closest there is to a great console on Windows. I shiver at the amount of hacks hacks Maximus would have put into that to just play well with everything (CMD, PS, Git Bash, etc), and its far lighter than Hyper, which sometimes collapses under it's own weight (it's Memory usage is alarming). Yeah, ConEmu doesn't do this, but I think I'm fine with that. The only main issue I have with ConEmu is that it sometimes becomes slow after showing output, such as for git commands, etc. But I think that's mostly because of Windows limitations, as stated elsewhere in this repo. |
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Please implement native win32 pty API (#1117), and let communities do the remaining works. conhost/cmd sucks for years |
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I'm sure we'd all like to see a proper extensible API, but there's no call to be rude about it. The Conhost team has been working extremely hard to make things better for us, and there have been a lot of improvements made in a short period of time, especially for something so core to the OS. We're going to have to be patient. This isn't the type of thing that can be fixed overnight. |
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Will we be able to leverage the coming "Sets" feature? |
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Alas, no - sets only works with modern UWP apps - Console is (currently) a Win32 app which predates UWP by several decades. Bear with us - we're working on a plan to fix this ;) |
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Note: Closing this issue as it's not WSL-specific, isn't a bug-level issue - it's a feature that's being tracked via the #1 Console UserVoice ask. |
Do you mean there's a UWP version in the works? 🤓 |
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Afaik it should work later for Win32 apps too, as I read news about the sets, but I think @bitcrazed knows best about that :D. |
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That would be great if they changed the console to a UWP app but alas, that day is far in coming. |
It would be very nice to have a tabbed command line window, where you can ust ctrl + t to open a new command line. I would like to see it inside the WSL Bash, but of course it would be great to have it for cmd and ps too for all users. I know this is not related to WSL but I only wanted to mention it.
Yes I know ConEmu but for only this little feature, it is a bit to overloaded with functions which I don't need. I used it very often but it should be a build in functionality as for Linux terminals.
Regards
Chris
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