Is there a better Windows Console Window? [closed]

Question

I find working on the command line in Windows frustrating, primarily because the console window is wretched to use compared to terminal applications on linux and OS X such as "rxvt", "xterm", or "Terminal". Major complaints:

1. No standard copy/paste. You have to turn on "mark" mode and it's only available from a multi-level popup triggered by the (small) left hand corner button. Then copy and paste need to be invoked from the same menu

2. You can't arbitrarily resize the window by dragging, you need to set a preference (back to the multi-level popup) each time you want to resize a window

3. You can only make the window so big before horizontal scroll bars enter the picture. Horizontal scroll bars suck.

4. With the cmd.exe shell, you can't navigate to folders with \\netpath notation (UNC?), you need to map a network drive. This sucks when working on multiple machines that are going to have different drives mapped

Are there any tricks or applications, (paid or otherwise), that address these issue?

Answer 1

I personally use Mintty. Therefore I use Cygwin (because thats the only shell it supports, as far as I know).

BTW There is another question: better command for Windows? I found.

Answer 2

Why not use Putty?

Answer 3

Take a look at Take Command.

Take Command is a comprehensive interactive GUI and command line environment that makes using the Windows command prompt and creating batch files easy and far more powerful.

(Take Command is, however, "not free".)

Answer 4

I use rxvt from cygwin. It behaves very much like an xterm.

Answer 5

Use Gow.exe .. This will make your DOS-Prompt as Linux terminal...

else

Use ZOC.exe...its Trial-period terminal...

else

Install Git .. it gives a bash-console from where u can use unix commands, partially

Answer 6

I'm using Terminals for remote connection via Telnet, RDC, SSH, ... Combines most used protocolls in one program.

URL: http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals