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Extend cmd.exe #

• The same line editing as Bash (from the GNU Readline Library)
• History persistence between sessions
• Scriptable completion with Lua
• New keyboard shortcuts:
  • Paste from clipboard (Ctrl-V)
  • Incremental history search (Ctrl-R/Ctrl-S)
  • Powerful completion (TAB)
  • Undo (Ctrl-Z)
  • Automatic "cd .." (Ctrl-Alt-U)
  • Environment variable expansion (Ctrl-Alt-E)
• Coloured and scriptable prompt
• Context sensitive completion:
  • Executables (and aliases)
  • Directory commands
  • Environment variables
  • Third-party tools: Git, Mercurial, SVN, Go, and P4
• Auto-answering of the "Terminate batch job?" prompt

/windows | Dec 31, 2013

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