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@nibor hello, thanks for the comment. I use the "Open Cmder here" context menu and it always opens a new window instead of a new tab. Is there a way to set it so that it opens a new tab?
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There is a sudo for Windows, a separate program that is added to path to work both from powershell and normal cmd.
It doesn't work purely in console, though - it prompts to accept running a program as admin... But it's still better than having to reopen.
Let me find it. I found it somewhere on Mastodon, so at least I know where to look at. -
Found my old Mastodon conversation. Person suggested to install scoop (https://scoop.sh/) and then you can do `scoop install sudo`
From what I wrote in that convo, works both in powershell and cmd, but if executed in cmd, will open admin-privileged powershell to complete the command (and close it afterwards). -
@sorashi I don't think so. Most of my work is around one project folder structure, so I just open a terminal there.
I hate that when developing on Windows I need like four different terminals. CMD, MINGW64/Cygwin/MSYS2, PowerShell. Each one has different functionality:
CMD - basic Windows commands
MINGW64 - emulates Linux terminal with frequent Linux commands and great support for Git
Powershell - access Windows COM, .NET etc.
Now there are solutions that attempt to solve this like Cmder (which is just more user-friendly ConEmu). These are console emulators which wrap all these in one window (with multiple tabs). But they are slow as hell. I have to wait like 10 seconds each time I start a terminal in Cmder, because the emulators need to run some huge startup scripts. But I just need to run one command from this one freaking folder!
Eventually I end up having like 30 different terminal windows open, each one different in functionality and each time I need to do something I must think about which terminal I need and in which folder. Furthermore I have to think about whether to run the terminal as administrator, but I usually forget that, so I have to close the terminal and reopen as admin. Why don't you just add something like su or sudo, Microsoft?
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