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Windows Terminal
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settings.json - Windows Terminal settings.json
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</ref> It includes support for the Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL and SSH.<ref>
</ref> After the initial source code release on GitHub, a preview release was first published to the Microsoft Store on June 21, 2019.<ref>
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With Cascadia Code, Microsoft also provides a new purpose-built monospaced font for the new command-line interface. It includes programming ligatures and was designed to enhance the look and feel of Windows Terminal, terminal applications and text editors such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.<ref name=“cascadia-code”>Cascadia Code | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers</ref> The font is open-source under the SIL Open Font License and available on GitHub.<ref>GitHub - microsoft/cascadia-code</ref> It is bundled with Windows Terminal since version 0.5.2762.0.<ref>
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Features
Windows Terminal is a command-line front-end: It can run multiple terminal apps, including text-based shells in a multi-tabbed window. It has out-of-the-box support for Windows Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Azure Cloud Shell Connector.<ref>The Azure Cloud Shell Connector in Windows Terminal | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers</ref> All of these, by default, work on Windows Console.
Windows Terminal augments the text-based command experience by providing support for:
- Notebook tabs, to hold multiple instances in a single window
- Hardware-accelerated text rendering via DirectWrite
- Window transparency effects
- Background images
- Fullscreen mode
- Split panes
- Microsoft Narrator compatibility via a User Interface Automation (UIA) tree<ref>Microsoft Issues Major Update to Windows Terminal – Thurrott.com</ref>
- Mouse input
- Customizable key bindings
See also
Notes
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Command shells Free terminal emulators Windows commands Windows components Microsoft free software Free software programmed in C++ Software using the MIT license 2019 software
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