Having said that, I'm quite used to gnome-termianl's and konsole's multi-tabbed command prompt interface, which is just as revolutionary as tabbed web-browser interface. Once used it, you'll never be able to go back.
For the past few months, most of my work is done on a Windows workstation, which I use to develop in multiple programming languages, research web-oriented security stuff and manage several Linux servers. Last week, while doing all of those at the same time, I got tired of the mess, and looked for a better way to manage my command prompts. Here is the result. Apparently this is not very new, so I was surprised I haven't heard about it before. Console 2.0 is a real bless, and is exactly what I was looking for, no more, no less.
Now, I have shortcuts for opening new tabs of several kinds:
- Standard CMD.
- Cygwin bash shell.
- Visual Studio 2005 command prompt.
- PowerShell (thought giving it a shot. For now I still think it sucks)
- Pre-configued command line SSH connections (ssh -l username host) for several servers. This is way more handy than the other Putty wrappers.
Just today a mate recommended me about Console 2.0. Haven't tried yet.
ReplyDeleteI think that PowerShell has some good points. As you said, too bad it's so much different (and longer) than popular Unix commands. But it's so much better than cmd.exe.