Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells such as Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
Windows Terminal will be available through the Microsoft Store in Windows 10 and will be updated regularly, ensuring you'll always be up-to-date and able to take advantage of the latest features and improvements with minimal effort.
Key Functions Windows Bus Terminal
Multiple tabs
You asked, and we heard! The most frequently requested feature for Terminal is support for multiple tabs, and we're thrilled to finally deliver. Now you can open as many tabs as you like, each connected to a command-line shell or application of your choice, such as Command Prompt, PowerShell, Ubuntu on WSL, Raspberry Pi via SSH, etc.
beautiful text
В Windows Terminal uses a GPU-accelerated DirectWrite/DirectX text rendering engine. This new text rendering engine will display text characters, glyphs, and symbols present in fonts on your PC, including CJK ideograms, emoji, powerlines, icons, programming ligatures, and more. This engine even renders text much faster than the console's previous GDI engine!
You will also have the opportunity to use our new font! We wanted to create a fun, new, monospaced font to enhance the modern look and feel of the terminal. This font will not only include programming ligatures, but will also have its own open-source repository. Stay tuned for more information on the new font project!
Settings and configurability
We've reached out to many command line users who enjoy customizing their terminals and command line applications. Windows Terminal offers a variety of settings and configuration options that give extensive control over the terminal's appearance and each shell/profile, which can be opened as new tabs. Settings are stored in a structured text file, simplifying configuration for users and/or tools.
Using the terminal configuration mechanism, you can create multiple “profiles” for each shell/application/tool you want to use, be it PowerShell, Command Prompt, Ubuntu Or even SSH connections to Azure or IoT devices. These profiles can have their own combination of font styles and sizes, color themes, background blur/transparency levels, and more. Now you can create your own terminal with your own style, personalized to your unique tastes!
More!
After graduation Windows With Terminal 1.0, we plan to begin working on many of the features we already have in our backlog, in addition to the many features you, as a community, are likely to add!
When can I receive it?
Today Windows Terminal and Windows Console is open source, so you can already clone, build, run, and test code from the GitHub repository:
A preview version will also be released in the Microsoft Store this summer. Windows Terminal for pioneers and providing feedback.
And already in winter we plan to release it completely Windows Terminal 1.0 is here, and we'll be working with the community to make sure it's fully ready before we release it!
Wait... did you say open source?
Yes, that's right! We're excited to announce that we're opening not only Windows Terminal, but also Windows Console, which contains the command-line infrastructure in Windows and provides a traditional Console UX.
We can't wait to work with you to improve and expand the capabilities of the command line. Windows!
This sounds amazing, but why don't you just improve the existing one? Windows Console?
main goal Windows Console is designed to maintain backward compatibility with existing command-line tools, scripts, etc. While we have managed to add many key improvements to console functionality (e.g., adding support for VT and 24-bit color, etc.), 
see this blog post), we can't make further significant improvements to the console UI without breaking the peace.
So it's time for a new, fresh approach.
Windows Terminal is installed and works alongside the existing application. Windows Console. If you directly launch Cmd/PowerShell/etc., they will connect to a traditional console instance just like normal. This way, backward compatibility remains intact, while you can still use Windows Terminal, if/when you want to do this. Windows The console will continue to ship in Windows for decades to support existing/legacy applications and systems.
Okay, but what about contributing to an existing terminal project or an open-source application?
We carefully considered this option during planning and decided that our involvement with an existing project would require changing the project's requirements and architecture in a way that would be too disruptive.
Instead, by creating a new open-source terminal application and open-source Windows Console, we can invite the community to collaborate with us in improving the code and using it in their respective projects.
We believe there is plenty of room in the market for new/different ideas about what a terminal can and should do, and we are committed to helping the ecosystem of terminal (and related) applications thrive and evolve through new ideas, interesting approaches, and exciting innovations. in this space.
Convinced! How to take part?
Visit the repository at to clone, build, test and run a terminal! In addition, we would appreciate it if you would report bugs and share feedback with us and the community, as well as fix issues and make improvements to GitHub.
This summer try to install and run Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. If you encounter any issues, please share your feedback via Feedback Hub or the Issues section on GitHub, which is designed for questions and discussions.
We are happy to work with you! If you have any questions or requests feel free to contact Kayla and/or Rich on Twitter. We can't wait to see what great improvements and features you bring to Windows Terminal and Windows Console.
Source: habr.com
