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 use Cygwin inside the Poderosa terminal emulator.

Answer 2

I think you will love PowerCMD which you can work 4 command windows at the same time. Also, you can use many extra commands inside the PowerCMD. PowerCMD

Answer 3

There is a small program mo.exe on github that solves the first three issues: https://github.com/boolship/Mo

It runs in normal DOS console window, Git Bash on Windows, etc.

update:

That link is now deprecated, use: https://github.com/boolship/MoDi