On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.ser...@nothing.here.invalid> wrote: > > M$'s excuse for a real Terminal, "Power" Shell (sigh), is _slightly_ > better but still lacking lots of features. Like a decent scripting > language. I loath VBS. ¦þ,,, /puke
PowerShell is a .NET scripting language that's available in Windows, Linux, and MacOS. VBScript is an unrelated scripting language that was more commonly used on Windows before PowerShell came along. On Windows, powershell.exe either allocates a console or inherits one from its parent. The Windows console adapts the message-based desktop environment to support command-line applications. It provides an input stream with keyboard and mouse records, and screen buffers that support UCS-2 and a 16-color palette. In Windows 10, it also functions as a virtual terminal with 24-bit color. In Windows 7 and up, each console is hosted by a separate instance of conhost.exe. Previously, NT systems hosted consoles in the system process, csrss.exe. In Windows 8 and up, the console API uses the ConDrv device for IPC with an attached console. Previously, NT systems used LPC ports and shared memory for this. In Windows 9x, the console window was hosted by conagent.exe, and the API used the VCOND device for IPC. Despite the ever-changing implementation details, the console API itself has been relatively stable for about 25 years. > It does have mouse selection (but still treats the text as a block of > characters, like a DOS box, and not lines of text, like Terminal) In Windows 10, the console uses line-wrapping selection by default, and rectangle selection requires holding ALT. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
