Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Setup Windows Terminal with PowerLine

Windows Terminal is a terminal application that aggregates several shells, like Command Prompt, Powershell and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Windows Terminal. Image credits to Microsoft.


It features:
  • multiple tabs
  • panes
  • Unicode and UTF-8 character support
  • a GPU accelerated text rendering engine
  • themes (or use customized themes by you)
  • customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts

It's very flexible and very configurable.

On top of Windows Terminal, we can have Powerline for a pretty prompt. Microsoft has the tutorial that explains how to setup Powerline, which includes integration with GIT, with Posh-Git and Oh-My-Posh.
Windows Terminal Powershell with Powerline. Image credits to Microsoft.

Isn't this nice?