{"id":5840,"date":"2015-07-30T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T08:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2015-07-30T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T08:18:50","slug":"in-windows-10-microsoft-have-finally-updated-the-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"In Windows 10: Microsoft have finally updated the Console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the demands of my job and the fact that I like shiny new technology, I&#8217;m pretty much operating system agnostic these days. I find myself flitting between Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS on a regular basis and find them all delightful and head-smackingly frustrating in equal measure.<\/p>\n<p>One of my geeky guilty pleasures is taking some time out to kick the tyres of a new operating system and so I&#8217;m having a lot of fun with Windows 10 right now. I tend not to play with preview builds so all of this is new to me.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows command prompt hasn&#8217;t seen much love in decades and yet it&#8217;s so important to the work I do. In Windows 10, it&#8217;s received a much needed update.\u00a0Right at the top of the list are improvements to copy and paste. In older versions of windows, this is my workflow I go to a new machine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using CTRL-V, try to copy and paste into the command line. It doesn&#8217;t work. You get ^V appear instead<\/li>\n<li>Sigh and mutter to yourself. Right click on the\u00a0top of the window. Choose properties. Enable Quick Edit mode.<\/li>\n<li>Press CTRL-V again. ^V appears. Press it a few more times ^V^V^V^V<\/li>\n<li>Remember that in cmd.exe, unlike all other applications in Windows, the way to paste is to right click. Mutter again. Get on with life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Windows 10, quick edit mode is enabled by default and CTRL-V just works. Happy days!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/buildingapps\/2014\/10\/07\/console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview\/\">whole host of other improvements<\/a> including word-wrap, transparencies, the ability to resize the window and more.\u00a0I feel like the Windows command prompt has taken its first step into a larger world.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft have also set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/wpdev.uservoice.com\/forums\/266908\">discussion forum for the future of the Command Prompt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the demands of my job and the fact that I like shiny new technology, I&#8217;m pretty much operating system agnostic these days. I find myself flitting between Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS on a regular basis and find them all delightful and head-smackingly frustrating in equal measure. One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}