cmder vs ConsoleZ

Cmder builds on ConEmu console emulator, by adding enhancements from clink (such as bash-style completion in cmd.exe and PowerTab in powershell.exe) and optionally extending it with msysgit, that brings Unix tools to Windows.

There is a portable version of cmder available which is just 10 MB in size. It can be put on an external device, like a USB stick, and run off it. There's no installation required.

This is an extremely useful mode whereby the console hides and shows on ctrl+~ similar to a gaming console. This feature is inherited from ConEmu.

Such applications include CMD, Powershell, and MinTTY.

Cmder can be added to the right-click menu, allowing the user to start a terminal session from the selected directory with a "Cmder Here" command. The functionality can be enabled by opening up a terminal with administrator privileges, navigating to the Cmder folder and executing .\cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL.

Cmder pretties up the default look of ConEmu using Monokai color scheme out of the box and allows flexible color and transparency schemes, including custom out-of-focus opacity.

Portable GUI applications can be integrated directly into the interface of the terminal emulator.

For example, it's possible to integrate ST3 with cmder by moving the portable version of ST3 to /cmder/vendor/ and editing alias file in /cmder/config/aliases to include subl="%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" $1 -new_console:s75V. Now writing subl in the command line will open ST3. The alias of subl can be changed to whatever's needed and similarly, the -new_console option's parameters can be changed to alter how the text editor integrates with the terminal emulator. It can be horizontal or vertical splits of varying sizes or tabs, etc.

CMDer works great with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Just change your startup task to point to the bash.exe file.

Integrates with:

• cygwin
• mintty
• powershell
• msysgit

Set ZSH as shell using "chsh" command, and launch the console using "ubuntu1804" command.

Cmder can be used with popular editors such as VS Code, which delivers aliases and clink as well as its color scheme to VS Code.
It can also be used without ConEmu and Hyper as an alternative terminal emulator, which makes customizing the UI through NPM plugins much easier.

In ConsoleZ, the user can split a tab into different views either horizontally or vertically.

ConsoleZ can be opened in fullscreen.

Install to OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive and your setting will be consistent everywhere.

Typographic ligatures occur when there are two or more letters joined as a single glyph, such as "æ".

Being a fork of Console2, ConsoleZ is fully compatible. It even recognizes existing Console2 config files, making the transition easier.

ConsoleZ allows for grouping of open views (panes) so that if an input is sent to one of them, it can be sent to all views grouped with it automatically.

This means that the display screen in ConsoleZ is sharp.

ConsoleZ can be used as a drop-down terminal inspired by the famous Quake terminal. Once opened, it can be toggled with a key of the user's choice. This makes it easier to have access to it from any window instead of having to cycle through all open applications.

ConsoleZ is available in French, Russian, German, and Japanese.

The user can easily zoom by simply pressing Ctrl-Mouse.

Jump List is a useful feature that allows the user to view recent documents in a program that is pinned to the taskbar.