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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 env var as well. Anyone know how to get this working? Ok, wow. The solution is to disable custom font color in console2. If enabled, it overrides the expected colors. I use a custom color to give me opaque text when using c2's alpha transparency. I completely forgot about it. VonC That is strange because, with a default installation of console2 (2.00

This is related somewhat to this question about a better shell terminal/gui-interface for cmd.exe In my quest to find a better shell terminal, the only useful thing I came across was Console2 , other alternatives weren't free and generally didn't offer much more than Console2 to make them worth their price. I can't help but wonder, "how come"? The shell terminal is a very valuable tool to a programmer, yet no one came around to try and do a better job than cmd.exe (except for the guys @ console2)?? Surely designing a command line shell terminal emulator can't be such a hard task! Has anyone

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. Interesting question. I looked into it, there are some options but none are pretty. Console.exe takes arguments, so it's possible to start it with a specific tab and execute an arbitrary process. However, this process will always be run within it's own cmd.exe; for example if your program is c:\my.exe and you launch Console as console.exe -t tabname -r c:\myexe Console2 internally calls CreateProcess( ...

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 tabs anymore. I've got this working with ConEmu instead. http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/ Install Git Bash Install ConEmu Open ConEmu, in settings (top right corner), click "settings" In the settings tree, open "startup", then "tasks" Add a new task, or edit one of the existing ones click on the "tab" button in second row from bottom in the first