mark++

I just rediscovered the Console project on SourceForge.NET. Console is a replacement for the stock CMD.EXE shell that comes with Windows. Turns out a lot of progress has been made since last I looked. It’s amazing. It fixes nearly every annoyance I’ve ever had with CMD.EXE:

• User configurable copy and paste hot keys.
• Optional X-style copy-on-select
• Selecting line-wrapped lines works almost exactly how I’d expect
• Tabs (tab names can be derived from the title command)
• Desktop docking / snap to edges
• Transparency / custom background images

Some things I’d like to see added:

• Configurable hot keys for scrolling, like Shift-PGUP and Shift-PGDN
• Command-line options for drop-in replacement of CMD.EXE (/k would be nice, for example)
• A way, from the command line, to launch a process in a new tab of the current window
• Optional rectangular select, perhaps with a hotkey

If you use the command line on Windows, you want this. I can’t recommend it highly enough.