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Re: Offer Windows Terminal as option for terminal emulation

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Jan 7, 2022, 10:23 UTC
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On 2022-01-07 at 08:12:08, theking2@king.ma wrote:
> Since Windows 11 an acceptable terminal program comes with the OS as
> replacement for cmd.exe. There is no need to install yet another terminal
> emulator MinTTY
Hey,

It looks like you probably wanted to write to the Git for Windows project, and I'd recommend their issue tracker at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues. As a non-Windows user, I don't know why this decision has been made and whether there were any reasons for doing it, but it's a part of Git for Windows and not Git proper.

I do know that in the past, Windows Terminal has had some serious compliance bugs: it claimed to be xterm-256color (instead of the correct ms-terminal) and failed to implement enough features that it broke Vim in many cases, which obviously wouldn't be suitable.

However, I think that's been fixed, and it may function correctly now that it's supportable as an option, but you'd have to ask the Git for Windows project why they don't have that option. They may be delighted to off an option to have less code.

-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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