cmder

Cmder is a console package for Windows, not a terminal emulator written from scratch. It bundles ConEmu, with a heavily reworked configuration and a Monokai color scheme, together with Clink (GNU Readline-style editing for cmd.exe, extended by clink-completions) and a custom prompt. The full edition also includes a vendored Git for Windows installation, which provides the bash tabs. It is for Windows users who want a more Unix-like command line without installing anything system-wide.

Portability is the main selling point. Cmder is self-contained with no external dependencies, so you extract the archive somewhere without admin restrictions (not C:\Program Files) and run Cmder.exe, from a USB stick or cloud storage if you like, taking your aliases and binaries such as git, curl and wget with you. Executables placed in %cmder_root%\bin are added to the PATH, and opt holds app folders that are not. For shared installs, Cmder.exe /C %userprofile%\cmder_config keeps per-user config separate from the shared program folder. /REGISTER ALL adds a "Cmder Here" entry to the Explorer context menu.

Tabs can run several shells side by side: Cmder (an enhanced cmd.exe with Git, a Git-aware prompt, Clink and aliases), PowerShell, bash and mintty, each also available as an administrator tab. Shift+Alt+1 and Shift+Alt+2 open new CMD and PowerShell tabs, Ctrl+Alt+U moves up a directory, and Ctrl+R searches history. Startup scripts dropped into config\profile.d run for each shell type (.cmd/.bat, .ps1 and .sh). Aliases created with alias name=command support $1-$9 and $* parameters and are saved to config\user_aliases.cmd. The cmd.exe prompt is configured in cmder_prompt_config.lua, with options for colors, single or multi-line layout, full path and user@host.

Because Cmder is a wrapper, most terminal behavior and settings come from ConEmu and its settings dialog. Mintty tabs are the exception: they support xterm and xterm-256color TERM types but ignore ConEmu's color schemes and key bindings and are configured through .minttyrc instead. The mini edition has no bundled bash, so its bash tabs need an external installation such as WSL or Cygwin. Cmder runs only on Windows.