Questions tagged [console2]

Console is a Windows console window enhancement

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.

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MINGW64 is opening outside of my Console2

I am using console2 and would like to create a MINGW64 tab. I created a new tab in settings and added the shell directory. However, when I go to open that tab the git-cmd opens up in a seperate window (as if I just ran it normally) and Console2 is…
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Can vim recognize when it is used in Console2?

With Steven Harman's Solarized tweak for Console2 I can more or less use the Solarized color scheme in win32 vim. But once in a while I find myself in vim via a vanilla cmd.exe window and the Solarized 16-color colorscheme is not aligned to it gui…
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Programming a terminal emulator, what's in it?

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…
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Getting windows 10's bash to work with console2

I recetly reseted my PC and cant get this to work now.. I dont really remember how I got it to work last time. But I saw this guide: http://sean-bedford.com/console2-bash/ But when I try to change my shell to: C:\windows\System32\cmd.exe /c…
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Issue with Github for windows and Custom Shell

I'm having problems trying to set my Custom Shell in Github for windows to Console2. It seems like no matter what I try it wants to ignore my setting and just launch in powershell. Under Github for Windows I have the path for my custom shell set to…
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Windows CMD Keyword Highlighting

Is it possible to change the color of keywords in the windows cmd.exe? I would like commands like "ls, cd, pwd, etc." to be different colors. Also, I've tried "COLOR 1D" using the list that comes from running "color /?", but this just colors all of…
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Copy from Console2 to Clipboard

I'm connected to a EC2 (Ubuntu) instance via SSH using the Console2 (I can connect using the default Windows terminal if is the case). And I need to copy a SSH key to the clipboard so a I can paste in the deploy keys of Bitbucket, how to copy it to…
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how do i get console to notify me when it is finished running a script

I am using nant, but this can apply to any thing, I just want to know if there is a way to set windows cmd or console2 or some kind of shell to give me a popup or make a noise when it is "finished" (i.e. when it is waiting and the screen says…
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How do I configure Console2/Git Bash to run different scripts in different tabs?

Firstly, my apologies for possibly incorrect terminology. I'm coming at this from a windows background and have only Windows and DOS knowledge with which to express my needs. Background I am using Console2 to run Git Bash in 2 different tabs. These…
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Consoles and Tabs

When I start the tomcat server from console using the startup.bat script, a new command window opens which is filled with java logging statements. I use Console2 which leverages tabs for each open console window. Is it possible to let the java…
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Adding existing key for Git in Cygwin

I have my key set up as inpdenedent GIT installation for our local repo. I can do all git commands from git bash prompot. Recently, I installed cygwin and want to use git from there. I tried running ssh-add command and it didn't work ... see…
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git status only correct if "Run As Administrator", problems due to Windows VirtualStore

I have a git repository for an Excel Addin I wrote, so the path is "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\Library\BTRTools" (That 'Library' path is the required install parent of Excel add-ins for them to work properly, so I can't…
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Setting WindowTitle of PowerShell posh-git - escape hyphen?

I'm trying to set the WindowTitle of Powershell (hosted by Console) to match the output of my posh-git prompt. So if I had one modified file, my prompt would look something like; [Repo master +0 ~1 -0] I'd like to set the $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle…
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Get Ansicon working on Console2 (Windows 7, 64 bit)

I was wondering how you would get Ansicon working on Console2. Currently, tere is color when I run cmd.exe and colors show up (ie. Rspec). BUT, i have tried to use Console2 (Settings, Tabs, Shell -> C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe…
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Executing things on console2 startup

I am using console2 and I am trying to execute a few simple things when I fire console2 like set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MyPgm\Git\bin How can I do such things. And on the side is there somewhere I can find example of nice configs of console2
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