[OT] tabbed command line window? WAS Re: Ranting about the state of Python IDEs for Windows

[Jon Nicoll]

Hi all
some comments in the earlier thread about tabbed windows with VIM
reminded me of a scratch I'd like to itch: does anyone know of a
tabbed command line utility for Win32? I'd like something like
KDEterm, where you can have multiple tabbed command line 'sessions' in
a single window, just switching between the tabs as desired.

I sometimes need to use several command line prompt windows at once
(different directories, environment variables etc.) and it would be
great to collect these all together into one window. I've looked a few
times but never found anything that comes close...

Thanks for any suggestions

jon N

 

[Nick Vargish]

does anyone know of a tabbed command line utility for Win32?

For OS X there's iTerm, which has a tabbed interface... Time to
switch? :^)

Nick

 

[Daniel Dittmar]

some comments in the earlier thread about tabbed windows with VIM
reminded me of a scratch I'd like to itch: does anyone know of a
tabbed command line utility for Win32? I'd like something like
KDEterm, where you can have multiple tabbed command line 'sessions' in
a single window, just switching between the tabs as desired.

No real answer, but:
- XP has the capability to group 'like' windows under one menu in the
taskbar
- eConsole (http://www.corion.net/econsole/index.html) puts a graphic
frontend on console windows. The author did this to provide background
windows, but it can probably extended to add tabs. It is written in
Delphi and source is available.
- Take Command (http://jpsoft.com/tcmddes.htm) is a commercial utility
that provides a GUI interface to console windows. They haven't tabs
either, but maybe they are planning them.

Daniel

 

[Aquila Deus]

Hi all
some comments in the earlier thread about tabbed windows with VIM
reminded me of a scratch I'd like to itch: does anyone know of a
tabbed command line utility for Win32? I'd like something like
KDEterm, where you can have multiple tabbed command line 'sessions' in
a single window, just switching between the tabs as desired.

I sometimes need to use several command line prompt windows at once
(different directories, environment variables etc.) and it would be
great to collect these all together into one window. I've looked a few
times but never found anything that comes close...

XEmacs, there is tabbed-interface, and you can open several shells and
code sesssions by yourself