I blogged about Console2 as a better prompt for CMD.exe in 2005. Here we are 6 years later and I hopped over there to see Console2 was still being developed. They were on build 122 then, and they are, magically and to their extreme credit, still around and on build 147. Epic.
Open Source projects may be done, but they are never dead.
I downloaded Console2 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/files/ and put it c:\dev\utils which is in my PATH.
Here's how I set it up for my default awesomeness.
- Right-click in the main console and click Edit | Settings.
- Under Console, set your default Startup Directory
- Under Appearance|More, hide the menu, status bar and toolbar.
- Under Appearance, set the font to Consolas 15. Not 14, not 16. Black background, Kermit green foreground color.
- Set Window Transparency to a nice conservative 40 for both Active and Inactive. Not too in your face, but enough glassiness to say "I'm a subtle badass."
- Under Behavior set "Copy on Select"
- Under Hotkeys, change the New Tab 1 hotkey to Ctrl-T because that's what it should be. You'll have to click on the hotkey, then in the textbox, then type the hot-key you want AND press Assign for it to stick.
- Under Hotkeys, change Copy Selection to Ctrl-C and Paste to Ctrl-V then rejoice and wonder why Windows doesn't work like this today. At this point, you may want to device if you want "Copy on Select" to happen automatically under Behavior. That'll save you the Control-C if you like.
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