{"id":111,"date":"2008-03-24T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T06:53:26","slug":"console-replacement-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/03\/console-replacement-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Console Replacement for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Console is an abomination.  In this modern word of mice, cut and paste, and fast video output, it&#8217;s slow, painful to use, and ugly.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, there&#8217;s an Open Source project called, appropriately enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/console\">Console<\/a>.  This project aims to address these long-standing shortcomings of the Windows console.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/console\"><img src='http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/console.png' alt='SourceForge Console application screenshot' border=0 \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Great Things<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li \/>Proper selection without having to go to the System menu and select &#8216;Mark&#8217;<\/li>\n<li \/>Tabs!<\/li>\n<li \/>Tab title updates with name of running executable<\/li>\n<li \/>Customization of the UI:  toggle tabs, status bar, menu bar, tool bar<\/li>\n<li \/>Supports <b>copy on select<\/b>.  This will be familiar if you use PuTTY.  It means selected text is automatically copied to the clipboard.\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Not-So-Great Things<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li \/>Tab title isn&#8217;t customizable\n<li \/>Colors cannot be set on a per-tab basis\n<li \/>Context menu contains a duplicate of the full Window menu, even though you likely only want the Edit menu contents\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m very impressed with the status of the project, and I look forward to contributing to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Console is an abomination. In this modern word of mice, cut and paste, and fast video output, it&#8217;s slow, painful to use, and ugly. As it turns out, there&#8217;s an Open Source project called, appropriately enough, Console. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/03\/console-replacement-for-windows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[150,148,152,154,153,151,18,149],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cmd","tag-console","tag-copy","tag-copy-on-select","tag-paste","tag-shell","tag-windows","tag-windows-console"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}