Inside the Windows Console
Very interesting. I learned a lot.<p>The author mentions &quot;re-re-re-implementing&quot; command line history as a disadvantage of using shells in a dumb terminal emulator.<p>But, with respect, I think he&#x27;s wrong about that. Command line history is a valuable productivity enhancer, and tying the details of its operation to the terminal rather than the shell restricts functionality and flexibility.  For example, witness the differences between git bash (mingw) and cmd on Windows.<p>Inbuilt OS stuff should be as simple as possible. It doesn&#x27;t have to be precisely &#x2F;dev&#x2F;tty - like, but it should be simple. Partly to avoid bloat, and partly because it&#x27;s much less flexible than userland stuff.<p>Even when RAM was worth twice its weight in gold, various UNIX shells weren&#x27;t heavy. Now? not worth worrying about.<p>I admit I came up as a UNIX user so I favor sh-like history. But still, Windows terminal history just isn&#x27;t as good. (I wish it didn&#x27;t deduplicate repeated commands and lose them when they&#x27;re edited.)