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About ConEmu

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles as one customizable GUI window with various features.

Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager, my favorite shell replacement - file and archive management, command history and completion, powerful editor.

Today, ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (e.g. PuTTY). ConEmu is an active project, open to suggestions.

Fosshub.com ConEmu mirror

Take a look at this screencast about ConEmu.

This fork grew from ConEmu by Zoin.

License (BSD 3-clause)

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.

See Release/ConEmu/License.txt for the full license text.

Some links

Wiki: https://conemu.github.io/en/TableOfContents.html
What's new: https://conemu.github.io/en/Whats_New.html
Release stages: https://conemu.github.io/en/StableVsPreview.html
Donate this project: https://conemu.github.io/donate.html

Description

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

  • smooth window resizing;
  • tabs and splits (panes);
  • easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64bit OS (DosBox required);
  • quake-style, 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 the console simultaneously;
  • cursor: standard console (horizontal) or GUI (vertical);
  • and more, and more...

Far Manager related features

  • tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles;
  • thumbnails and tiles;
  • show full output (1000+ lines) of the last command in editor/viewer;
  • customizable right click behaviour (long click opens the context menu);
  • drag and drop (explorer style);
  • and more, and more...

All settings are read from the registry or ConEmu.xml file, after which the command line parameters are applied. You can easily use multiple named configurations (for different PCs for example).

Requirements

  • Windows 2000 or later.

Installation

In general, ConEmu installation is easy. Just unpack or install to any folder and run ConEmu.exe.

Read the Installation wiki for information on release stages, distro packages, some warnings and much more...

Building from sources

https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/blob/master/src/HowToBuild.md

Screenshots

Splits and tabs in ConEmu

ConEmu+Powershell inside Windows Explorer pane

More screenshots