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Clink is a small utility to enhance Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe", adding more powerful command line completion, editing, and history.

Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe".

Features

  • The same line editing as Bash (from GNU's Readline library)
  • History persistence between sessions
  • Scriptable completion with Lua
  • New keyboard shortcuts
  • Coloured and scriptable prompt
  • And more...
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Getting the list of command history using Clink

I recently installed Clink and I'm quite happy with the history being kept in between session and the ability to search history using Ctrl+R / Ctrl-S. However, I would very much like to have access to the full list of commands that Clink currently…
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How to add current date/time to clink/cmder prompt

I'm a rather happy user of clink via the great cmder package. The only thing I miss is an easy way to set the command prompt to display the current date/time (and last exit code, history number, as in bash... etc). Could someone point me to the…
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How do I modify Cmder to show my Git change summary on the prompt? (+A/~C/-D)

I can see the output of the branch name no problem (although, in version 1.3.4+ it also strangely outputs "master -> origin" when it didn't use to), but I can't figure out why it has never successfully shown changes. This works in Powershell+Poshgit…
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How do I set Clink's --profile option in ConEmu?

ConEmu's docs give us an elegant way of injecting Clink. However, I'd like to specify Clink's --profile option (docs) so that I can keep my Clink settings alongside other config files in a common location. Is this possible in ConEmu?
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How to set Clink's output color?

Clink's default text output is in white. E.g. after injecting Clink, typing clinkTabTab shows: If I set the cmd window to black text on white background ("Properties" → "Colors"), this is the output: The second row cannot be seen, because it is…
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How to get bash commands in CLink

Some time ago I installed clink on one PC and it supports bash commands, like pwd, ls. Now I installed it on another PC and these commands are not recognized. Other features of clink, like auto-completion, reverse-i-search, prompt color are still…
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cmder using clink does not show git branch

When I tick "Use Clink in Cmder" in cmder settings, git branch names are not shown in cmder if I "Open in Terminal" the folder. If I untick it, it is shown, and the output is more colorful, as well. Is there any benefit to use Clink that cmder does…
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cmder/conEmu hotkeys how to set up for for directory movements

I would like to define the following keys in Cmder: Alt+Up -> move to parent directory (Ctrl+Alt+U) Alt+Left -> move to previous directory (the one I was in before the last cd) Alt+Right -> move to next directory Any help ?
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Why is my prompt reprint on horizontal ConEmu resize?

I've observed a weird behavior in my ConEmu shell: When i resize HORIZONTALLY the ConEmu window, and clink is enabled, after finishing the resize the shell prompt is being printed again: Before: After: It is really annoying and occurs on every…
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How can I ensure a blank line before every new prompt?

I'm using the Cmder package for my Windows command line environment. Some commands don't create a blank line after they've completed, which can make it more difficult to see every command that's been run. Is there a way to customize the command…
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get bash-style command cycling with clink

With bash, even without changes to the .bashrc, I can write the beginning of a command (e.g. "gr"), and press the up key to cycle through commands with this perfix (e.g. "grep -R asdf ."). With clink, cycling up commands ignores the command prefix I…
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Cmder Guest Windows 10, VirtualBox, See Available Drives is not working

I want to use cmder in my VirtualBox Guest, Windows 10 Enterprise version. First I used clink, And was working properly, but using cmder, is not showing the drives like clink. Here the output: How solve this?
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far manager 3, conemu and clink - some integration issues

I use conemu as console and clink as shell and from conemu I launch far managaer using far . and this opens far manager on the current directory. After exiting far manager and returning on conemu I would like to be in the path I was in far manager…
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Grab windows console output into a file (not redirection, no screen shots)

(Not redirection) I want to grab and save ALL the windows cmd console (win7) text into a file, without using the mouse. I need the text for doing command completion, instead of copy/pasting parts of words from the console. This is on win7 with cmd +…
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Windows: Remove file type from path completion

I've got an issue with my cmd environmental variables autocompletion (with TAB). For some reason, I'm getting suggestions for .dll .png and all other nonsense I don't care about. How do I exclude these file types? I'm not getting this kind of…
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