Windows 10 console slightly less horrid than before

[Daniel Colascione]

On 08/06/2015 02:09 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview/
> 
> tl;dr:
> 
> 0. The console window is now resizable.  Like, by dragging on the window edges.  You know, like in Windows 2.0.  Wow!  :)
> 
> 1. Text selection and pasting now works line-by-line, not as a block of unrelated lines.  ...Just like every *ix terminal program since forever.
> 
> 2. Extensive keyboard text editing.  It's not up to the standards of xterm plus Bash’s emacs mode, but it’s far better than they had before.
> 
> 3. Keyboard copy/paste, in Windows-native flavor (Ctrl-C/V/X) and xterm flavor (Ctrl/Shift-Ins).  Unfortunately, no xterm-like mouse copy/paste.
> 
> I’m not giving up mintty and Bash, but it’s nice to know the occasional dip into cmd.exe won’t be such a sharp shock.
> 

Still no pseudoconsole API?

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