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About ConEmu

ConEmu is a Windows console emulator, which represents multiple consoles as one customizable GUI window with various features. Basic application - joint use with Far Manager (Far in Wikipedia). Far (File and Archive) Manager is a console program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.

Download latest version of ConEmu from project page

Project sources on svn.

Project mirrors on googlecode and sourceforge.net.

This fork grew up from ConEmu by Zoin.

Description

ConEmu starts a console program in hidden console window and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features:

smooth window resizing;
several panels in one window;
easy run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64bit OS;
tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles;
thumbnails and tiles in Far manager;
normal, maximized and full screen window graphic modes;
window font anti-aliasing: standard, clear type, disabled;
window fonts: family, height, width, bold, italic, etc.;
using normal/bold/italic fonts for different parts of console simultaneously;
using 24bit colors in Far3;
cursor: standard console (horisontal) or GUI (vertical);
for /BufferHeight mode: vertical scrolling using keyboard;
show full output (1K+ lines) of last command in editor/viewer;
customizable right click behaviour (long click opens context menu);
drag and drop (explorer style);
and more, and more... take a look at Settings dialog, WhatsNew and Settings.reg

All settings are read from the registry (multiple configurations are supported) and after that the command line parameters are applied. Parameters /Config and /BufferHeight are only for command line. Most of settings are changed only in the Settings dialog, not from the command line.

Requirements

Windows 2000 or later.

Installation

Install "ConEmuSetup.*.exe" package. Note, if You are using Far manager, preferred installation destination is folder containing "far.exe".
Far manager related.
- Import to the registry Far (1.x & 2.x) manager macroses, related to ConEmu. Macro *.reg files are located in ConEmu.Addons directory. Each macro file (*.reg) has description in header. Just doubleclick choosen files in Windows Explorer to import them.
- Far (3.x) macros located in ConEmu.Addons\Far3_fml folder.
By default (started without command line params), ConEmu runs "far.exe" from it's home folder, or "cmd.exe" if Far manager not found. Alternatively, You may specify any root command, specifying "/Cmd <App with params>" argument in ConEmu shortcut or command line.