Cmder – Portable console emulator for Windows

It&#x27;s nice but slow and limited, I used it for years until I discovered Babun:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;babun.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;babun.github.io&#x2F;</a>

I am already a heavy user of Conemu, which this one apparently wraps. What new would I get by switching to this? What changes have it made to Conemu that one might like? I&#x27;m curious, always looking for a better experience.

There&#x27;s a lot of comments here for which I want to reply: &quot;Have you tried MobaXterm? It can do want you want, and much more&quot;. But I don&#x27;t want to be too imposing, so I&#x27;ll just leave it here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;features.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobaxterm.mobatek.net&#x2F;features.html</a>

My own minimalistic approach for adding normal selection and resizing on top of an existing console window.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kobilutil&#x2F;wincon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kobilutil&#x2F;wincon</a><p>It is a 120kb single file executable, with no dependencies. No install, no setup and no config needed.<p>&#x2F;shameless plug

Cmder is awesome. I use it as a better interface to msysgit (I don&#x27;t find myself needing to actually work in `cmd.exe` much anymore).<p>I switched to it from Console2 pretty recently (last week, actually) and only have good things to say. I only wish I could use it with zsh without having to buy into the rest of cygwin (I find msys to be much better in nearly every way).

Great tool guys. something that was missing in windows for a long long time and we used to wish for something like this. i really love *nix terminal (especially mac terminal) and the best i could bake was putty with a monokai theme. but this is really cool tool.

This looks great, but I don&#x27;t see tabs as a feature of this, which is one of the really big things I miss when I have to work on Windows (which is thankfully quite rarely). I usually have a gnome terminal with a half dozen or more tabs (some named, some just in their usual locations) open when I&#x27;m working. I could use screen or tmux (and do when I work remotely), but tabs require less mental bandwidth, and maybe requires a different brain &quot;core&quot; for spatial processing (I dunno how these things work...but tabs feel less like work than cycling through screens in screen or tmux).

I can recommend using conemu with Cygwin minty. This gives you tabbed terminal, ssh command completion on. Windows. I probably should write a blog entry about this setup. Also native git. Do try it with Vagrant also.

I use this at work, but I still miss a proper Linux terminal.

I love cmder and my whole team is starting to use it now.<p>Only thing I miss is broadcasting keystrokes to multiple panes when i&#x27;m ssh&#x27;ed to multiple servers

I love Cmder but went back to Console2 because I find it almost impossibly confusing to configure (there are 900 settings) and more importantly, it occasionally stops accepting input for ~5 seconds.<p>I hope the Windows 10 native console improvements are as good as they sound.

Cmder was really awesome , the only problem I had with it is that it has so many settings , like tabing , and there is no way for disabling them. But as far as I can tell , Cmder is excellent tool , despite of my specific view about terminal application.

For me, Cmder was the one app that helped me easily transition back to Windows from OSX.<p>My only gripe with it is that it regularly loses keystrokes when using Autohotkey for text expansion.

Nice to see Conemu with GNU Readline. Search history and auto completion are the features I always missed in Conemu. Thumbs up to the developers (of Clink as well).

I&#x27;ve been using this about two years and love it.

Sorry, a bit off topic but can you share that pixelated cloud background from the main image? It looks really nice.

The landing page is really light on details.<p>Is the color selection based on ANSI escape sequences? Does it handle UTF-8?

Wait, so your github repo just has binaries in it? It doesn&#x27;t seem like you&#x27;re doing it right.

Cmder is great, I only wish I had more use for it