zorglubb
I have been testing out all sorts of terminal applications on Windows like CmEMU, GitBash, CMDer and many others and frankly, working inside it with Elixir leaves a lot to be desired from working in Terminal on MacOS and Linux.
Now Microsoft has release a pretty cool Windows Terminal, and working in iex is exactly the same. No tab complete, no formatting to speak of, no colors. This is such a big feature of working in IEX.
Is there a push or interest in making the Windows Terminal more useful, or is there some switch or configuration that I am missing?
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NobbZ
The various Bashes for Windows should work. At least color.
Another thing you can try is to use the
--werlswitch. It will open a separate window.orion
Tab complete and colors work for me on the new windows terminal. I just installed it.
Tab and colors also work with the old wsl/ubuntu/cmd terminal and hyper.
Hyper is heavy on the memory but here is the link in case you haven’t seen it. https://hyper.is
Edit: Colors and tab works with WSL but not with native elixir with command prompt/cmd for me.
NobbZ
Wow… A stripped down chrome(ium) just to display some textual information… Yes, that one needs a lot of memory for sure…
I’m pretty sure there are a lot of alternatives that’d work as well as hyper and use a lot less memory…
Arpple
I used Hyper.js + git bash + elixir installed on windows at first and it can’t use tab to auto complete in iex
after I switch to Window Terminal + WSL (ubuntu) + elixir installed inside WSL everything works fine, not seeing any issue now.
dimitarvp
In
CMDyou can just do this:It opens a new window which has tab completion at least. Colors though, no.
zorglubb
This does not TAB complete
zorglubb
Did you do anything? Did you run IEX through a bash linux shell ? I wasn’t clear on this, but this should work on windows command line interfaces like new terminal in cmd and powershell.
That it works under Linux subsystem is not what I am after
dimitarvp
For me it has tab completion working though. Strange.
NobbZ
CMD and Powershell work fundamentally different from the emulators or TTYs you’d use under Linux. That’s why the
--werlworkaround has been created by the Erlang folks. If it doesn’t work for you, then something is different with your setup from that of everyone else.orion
I’m not able to get colors and tabbing working outside of WSL except when the command iex.bat --werl is ran from command prompt/cmd. Only tabs work for me with iex.bat --werl not colors.