About ConEmu

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications 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.

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Description

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

• smooth and friendly window resizing;
• tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles;
• run simple GUI apps in tabs;
• easy run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64bit OS;
• 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 Far Manager 3.x;
• ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256 colors;
• cursor: standard console (horisontal) or GUI (vertical);
• optional settings (e.g. pallette) for selected applications;
• for BufferHeight mode: vertical scrolling using keyboard;
• show full output (1K+ lines) of last command in editor/viewer;
• customizable Far Manager right click behaviour (long click opens context menu);
• drag and drop (explorer style) of files and folders in Far Manager;
• BDF fonts limited support;
• user friendly text and block selection;
• transparency and desktop mode;
• customizable starting tabs;
• and more, and more... take a look at Settings dialog, WhatsNew and Settings.reg

All settings are read from the registry (multiple named 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

1. Unpack all files (from appropriate "ConEmu.*.7z") to the folder, containing "far.exe", or install "ConEmuSetup.*.exe" package.
• If You are using Far Manager, please ensure that plugins ("Plugins\ConEmu\ConEmu.dll" etc.) are installed to Far Manager folder.
• If You are not using Far Manager, You may unpack files to any folder and may delete "Plugins" subfolder.
• Warning, cause of frequent breaks of Far 3 API, it's strongly recommended to use latest developer build, when you are using Far 3.
2. Import Far Manager macroses, related to ConEmu. Macro files are located in ConEmu.Addons directory. Each macro file has description in header.
3. By default (started without command line params), ConEmu runs "far.exe" from it's home folder, or "cmd.exe"/"tcc.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.

Screenshots

FAR 2.0 + ConEmu Thumbnails & Tiles

FAR 3.0 + ConEmu (simple console mode)

FAR 2.0 + ConEmu, using anti-aliased font

FAR 2.0 Editor + ConEmu, anti-aliasing disabled