Offer Windows Terminal as option for terminal emulation

Offer Windows Terminal as option for terminal emulation

[theking2]

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

Re: Offer Windows Terminal as option for terminal emulation

[brian m. carlson]

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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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