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What's new in ConEmu Build 230724

Jul 24, 2023
  • conemu#2536: Do not emit control characters in title reports (capability fix).
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 230723 (Jul 23, 2023)

  • Do not emit control characters in title reports.

New in ConEmu Build 221218 (Dec 19, 2022)

  • Fix Window Title Reporting security issue. More info: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2003/Feb/341
  • conemu#2458: Preliminary support of Far3 experimental feature ‘Fullwidth-aware rendering’ temporarily removed.

New in ConEmu Build 220807 Alpha (Aug 8, 2022)

  • Conemu#2458: Preliminary support of Far3 experimental feature ‘Fullwidth-aware rendering’.
  • l10n: translations were updated
  • New binaries are signed with new certificate issued by Sectigo.

New in ConEmu Build 220418 (Apr 18, 2022)

  • conemu#2404, conemu#2420, conemu#2429: Fix line-wrapping regression.
  • GuiMacro: Let Tab 7 -2 activate the console where command is executed.
  • Fix StatusBar column ‘Cursor information’ description.

New in ConEmu Build 220308 Preview (Mar 9, 2022)

  • conemu#2385: Call C:Usersconemu.conemuCmdInit.cmd if it exists during {cmd} initialization.
  • conemu#2323: Fix Far inactivity tracking while its waiting on console input.
  • Internal warning fixes (Mikhail Lukashov).
  • conemu#2404: Fix line wrapping on Win11 with by-one-char output.
  • Link to Fonts documentation page was incorrect.
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210912 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • conemu#2363: Fix tasks file parser.
  • If temp file deletion fails register it to delete on reboot.
  • Default update channel for stable builds should be Stable.
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210905 (Sep 5, 2021)

  • Add hotkey to move focus from ConEmu to parent window during ConEmu Inside mode.
  • conemu#2362: When ‘Process ‘start’’ is enabled support starting .bat files from Far Manager by Shift+Enter in new tab automatically.

New in ConEmu Build 210816 (Aug 17, 2021)

  • conemu#2343: Add VS2022 command line tools detection.
  • Improve between monitor jumps. When two monitors have different dpi ConEmu tries to preserve size in console cells for non-maximized window.
  • conemu#2351: Fix crash while searching in settings dialog.

New in ConEmu Build 210718 Alpha (Jul 19, 2021)

  • conemu#2330: Fix crash on startup.
  • conemu#2328: Fix 100% CPU load during lua:far.Message(",).
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210627 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • conemu#2261: Far executor fix.
  • conemu#2329: Support GuiMacro run from PseudoConsoles. For proper work of ConEmu environment variables ConEmuPID and ConEmuServerPID should be set properly. Variables are set by ConEmuC (console server) but they also have to be inherited by processes running in the PseudoConsole (Windows 10 feature).

New in ConEmu Build 210624 (Jun 25, 2021)

  • conemu#2323: Fix ‘busy’ cursor in Far Manager 3.0 build 5817+.
  • conemu#2323: Edit box for Far hourglass timeout (ms).
  • conemu#2324: Path containing %DOCKER_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH% have to be quoted (by trolzen).
  • conemu#2261: Far executor fix.
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210620 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • New code signing certificate is used! Windows SmartScreen could show warnings until reputation level is back.
  • Disable taskbar overlay icon by default.
  • conemu#2327: Disable integral size for ‘100%’ width or height.
  • conemu#2296: Fix vagrant up commmand execution (5a5a84200 regression fix).

New in ConEmu Build 210314 (Mar 15, 2021)

  • conemu#327: Allow expand selection after DblClick.

New in ConEmu Build 210312 (Mar 13, 2021)

  • conemu#2280: Let’s tripple click select long lines wrapped on several rows (same AI as in copying selected text).
  • Correct double-click selection condition (was unselected unexpectedly in some cases, e.g. dblclick over comma).
  • Let’s triple click select last line trimming trailing spaces.
  • conemu#2292: Programs failed to run with -new_console:i switch from existing consoles.
  • conemu#2212: Fix command execution from Far Manager (files with commas, unquoted batches).
  • conemu#2279: Allow commands like -run "cmd /k echo Hello world".
  • Executor: choose ConEmuC bitness according to ComSpec settings.
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210304 (Mar 4, 2021)

  • conemu#2212: Fix executer in Far 1.75 (commands with redirections).
  • conemu#2249, conemu#2248: ANSI: Fix new line processing (screen issues).
  • Fix logging during ConEmuC -echo or ConEmuC -type.
  • conemu#2251: Restore WindowsXP 32-bit support.
  • Executor: Fix empty output of console app started from Far 3.0 on Windows XP.
  • Fix Far 1.75 default task name.
  • conemu#2246: Xterm child process fix.
  • Don’t try to substitute C: with env.vars in default tasks.
  • Remove RealConsole flickering while starting elevated tab.
  • Support ||| delimiter in single instance mode. E.g. run from .cmd file (^-escaped): start ConEmu64.exe -single -runlist ping -t 8.8.8.8 ^|^|^| ping -t google.com.
  • Stop selecting with mouse on LBtnUp when cursor is out of the ConEmu window rect.
  • conemu#1413: Improve scrolling during selection text with mouse.
  • l10n: translations were updated.

New in ConEmu Build 210206 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Fix Far Manager crash using ConEmu.Editor.lua.
  • Fix executing batch scripts from Far if command contains quotes.
  • Fix single-char lines output in python.
  • Prefix console error messages with ConEmuC:.
  • Fix run commands from Far Manager (ErrCode=0x00000057).
  • Fix ConEmuC -echo ... and ConEmuC -type ... commands.
  • L10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210202 (Feb 3, 2021)

  • Fix executer in Far 3.0.
  • Fix default task generation for VsDevCmd.bat.
  • Fix run cmd /k ... with -new_console switch.
  • Fix exception 0xC0000005 on fresh run.
  • Fix newline mode change using connector.
  • Hyperlinks: Allow use tasks in ‘goto editor’ command. E.g. {Far} /e%1:%2 %3.
  • DefTerm: Fix injects error -113:0x00000018 which could occurs during infiltrating program initialization.
  • l10n: translations were updated

New in ConEmu Build 210128 Preview (Jan 29, 2021)

  • Conemu#2212: Far 1.75 executor - fix run cmd scripts with space in the path, redirections or asFile specified in CreateProcess.
  • Create default tasks for all found WSL distributions.
  • Support loading tab icons for 64-bit system32 apps in 32-bit ConEmu (e.g. wsl.exe).
  • Conemu#2253: Fix ‘Run as current user’ radio box l10n.
  • DefTerm: Support manual attach of the VsDebugConsole.exe console. If VsDebugConsole.exe was started outside of ConEmu without DefTerm, the process does not have ConEmuHk injected and after manual attach it could behave incorrectly on debugging program termination.
  • Conemu#2250: Fix sequence ESC[3J to clear backscroll buffer.
  • L10n: translations were updated
  • DefTerm: Activate VsDebugConsole tab when new session (run/debug) is starting.
  • Reset dynamic scroll range after cls command.

New in ConEmu Build 210112 Preview (Jan 12, 2021)

  • conemu#2243: Fix arrow key issue in cygwin pseudo console. (#2245)
  • Add ConEmuC -verbose switch to force called functions printing to stdout (debugging purposes).
  • Don’t show MessageBox on injects failures in ConEmuC.exe, print error to stdout instead. May be suppressed by -silent switch.
  • Workaround for Win10 bug leading to invisible leading 4 characters in prompt after exit from cmd.exe /k wsl.exe.

New in ConEmu Build 210111 Preview (Jan 11, 2021)

  • conemu#2212: Fix run batch from Far Manager from paths containing space and @.
  • Fix running from cmd prompt: ConEmuC -c {bash}.

New in ConEmu Build 201124 Alpha (Nov 25, 2020)

  • conemu#2201: Support new executor in Far 3 build 5709.
  • l10n: German translations were updated
  • Minimum required Windows version was updated in Readme.

New in ConEmu Build 201123 Alpha (Nov 24, 2020)

  • conemu#2206: Fix distorted output (no automatic CR after LF).
  • conemu#2205: Fix installer (didn’t run because of incorrect side-by-side configuration).
  • conemu#2194: Convert tabs to spaces when pasting in single-line mode. Settings/Paste/Paste mode.

New in ConEmu Build 201101 (Nov 2, 2020)

  • Fixes for compilation with mingw64 on Linux.
  • Add sample cmd script %ConEmuBaseDir%Scriptsgit-push-set-upstream.cmd to call git push --set-upstream ... using current local branch.
  • conemu#2191: Alt+Space - show System Menu on key down.
  • Update icon for nuget/choco packages.
  • GuiMacro: WindowMode(TWidth) maximizes window width.
  • Let Win+Left/Right, Win+Shift+Left/Right process by OS if window title/frame aren’t hidden. This allows to use FancyZones from Windows PowerToys.
  • Let’s position by default ConEmu window in a normal position, slightly away from {0,0} screen corner. If window is started at {0,0} position, than Win+Left (on Windows 10) tiles window only on height-half.
  • Fix ConEmu restore after snapping window to zone on the other monitor. If ConEmu was moved to different monitor during spanned (tiled) mode, minimize/restore moved the window to the monitor where ConEmu was in the normal mode previously.
  • conemu#2135: Try to fix dpi assertion on computer wake.
  • Fix assertion dialog and memory dump creation. Only two buttons left - Retry (creates a dump for report) and Cancel (skip the assertion). Retry button does not kill ConEmu process anymore.
  • l10n: translations were updated
  • Fix excessive resize on restore to maximized state after moving between monitors.
  • ANSI and GuiMacro: Support paused progress state (yellow indicator on Windows TaskBar). ANSI sequence ESC ] 9 ; 4 ; 4 ; pr ST or GuiMacro Progress(4, pr) where pr is a percentage 0 .. 100. ref: microsoft/terminal#3004.
  • Don’t use connector/wslbridge for Wsl by default.

New in ConEmu Build 201011 Alpha (Oct 11, 2020)

  • conemu#2158: Replace control characters x01..x1F with unicode glyphs only for drawing.
  • conemu#2183: Let reopened CONOUT$ handle be inheritable. (Fix shell returned 1 vim message.)
  • Support default tasks generation for Visual Studio 2019 (via search in Program Files).
  • Add default hotkey Shift+RClick for new configs to open Edit menu.
  • New icon design.

New in ConEmu Build 200713 Preview (Jul 13, 2020)

  • conemu#2009: Autoload font files from ConEmuDir/ConEmuBaseDir (fix).
  • conemu#2130: Use v141_xp toolset to build Release|x86.
  • Fix ‘Settings/Debug/Exec’ monitoring: files weren’t loaded after ‘@’.
  • Button ‘Register ConEmu autorun’ didn’t work in some cases.
  • Fix console lags and size during ConEmu cmd autoattach initialization.
  • conemu#2145: Fix crash (read access violation).
  • l10n: translations were updated
  • conemu#468: Fix for environment reload from registry (expand variables in PATH). The problem was with PATH variable, it contains substitutes %SystemRoot%, but they were not expanded during environment refresh.
  • Code refactoring.

New in ConEmu Build 200615 Preview (Jun 15, 2020)

  • Fix broken -FontDir command line option.
  • Fix unbalanced CoUninitialize call in ConEmu Panel Views plugin.
  • Updated translations.

New in ConEmu Build 200604 Preview (Jun 4, 2020)

  • conemu#2009: Don’t register ttf files in the working directory.
  • StatusBar: Show negative (lesser than -255) process exit codes as hex. E.g. example.exe:1234 exit code 0xC0000409.
  • Hyperlinks: support one slash after protocol:. Powershell example: https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.
  • conemu#2095: Fix escaping of postponed GuiMacro scripts.
  • conemu#1994: Fix pane orders while saving opened tabs.
  • Prefer to activate during startup the console marked by ‘>’.
  • Fix opened tabs save: foregroud/background cur_console switches weren’t dropped.
  • conemu#1844: Status was not cleared after window drag in some cases.
  • conemu#2112: Polish translation in progress.
  • Fix wrong tab- and statusbar placement after dpi change.
  • conemu#275: Fix cropped scrollbar on high-dpi second monitor.
  • Warnings and UB fixes by FrankHB.
  • Set up CI with Azure Pipelines.
  • Update build system to VS2019.

New in ConEmu Build 191012 Preview (Oct 14, 2019)

  • conemu#1984 Add SetFocus macro which sets keyboard focus to ConEmu ghWnd handle (by stevium). Useful for ConEmu Inside scenario, where focus needs to be set programatically.
  • conemu#1984 Complete SetParentHWND macro by adding corresponding calls to gpConEmu (by stevium). Useful for ConEmu Inside scenario in case when there’s a need for switching ConEmu parent to different HWND.
  • conemu#1072, conemu#1973 Use 32-bit color in the tab headers (by ForNeVeR).
  • conemu#1072, conemu#1973 Set up tab overlays using ImageList_SetOverlayImage (by ForNeVeR).
  • conemu#1949 Add Keyboard Input Grouping status item (by tkatz77).
  • ConEmu.l10n Improved Japanese translation.
  • conemu#1994 Fix panes order on saving active tabs.
  • ConEmu.l10n Update Chinese translations.

New in ConEmu Build 190714 (Jul 15, 2019)

  • Don’t reset scroll position on Multimedia keypresses.
  • Fix background bug for 10x10 image.

New in ConEmu Build 190526 Preview (May 27, 2019)

  • Conemu#1906: Add missed ‘ru’ l10n strings.
  • L10N: Add Español translation, pull translations from Transifex.
  • Conemu#468: Auto update environment variables, changes are applied to new consoles only.
  • GuiMacro functions EnvironmentReload and EnvironmentList.
  • Switch -NoAutoEnvReload disables env.reloading for session.

New in ConEmu Build 190331 Preview (Apr 1, 2019)

  • Option ‘Snap to desktop edges’ was broken (regression 663a216).
  • Conemu#1878: Enable log in ConEmuC /c when started from Far.exe.
  • Conemu#1838: Log start/stop command from Far.exe.
  • Conemu#1871: Add some logs to WindowPosChaning.
  • Conemu#1851: Restore contents after return from Alternative screen was broken.
  • Conemu#1870: Add switch /t:<temp dir> to Setupper. Ability to specify temparary directory for msi files. So, you may specify on the ‘Update’ settings page special installer command, e.g.: "%1" /t:"C:TempConEmuFiles" /p:%3,adm /qn.
  • If the switch /t:…` is not specified, Setupper uses:
  • TEMP environment variable;
  • GetTempPath API function if variable is not defined.

New in ConEmu Build 190326 Preview (Mar 27, 2019)

  • conemu#1849: SystemMenu does not appear if ConEmu is maximized.
  • conemu#1838: Log times in CmdOutputStore/CmdOutputRestore.

New in ConEmu Build 190324 Preview (Mar 25, 2019)

  • conemu#1857: Fix regression in -cur_console processing.
  • conemu#1860: Support new clink dll names.
  • ANSI: Mouse mode for URXVT was not working.
  • ANSI: Implement ESC [ ! p sequence to reset terminal.
  • conemu#1852, conemu#1855: Fix ‘Show last command output’ in Far Manager (regression).
  • conemu#1851: Fix alternative buffer for OpenSSH.
  • conemu#1866: l10n: Add Japanese translation.
  • conemu#622: Unexpected left/right margins in quake mode with 100% width.
  • conemu#622: Fix window size on minimize/restore.
  • ANSI: Use x7 as our specials terminator in logs.
  • conemu#1492: AnsiLog-s location may be specified as a folder or file with -new_console:L:"Path". Write all ANSI logs to specified file: cmd.exe -new_console:L:"C:Logscmd.log". Create log files by format ConEmu-<YYYY-MM-DD>-p<SrvPid>.log: cmd.exe -new_console:L:"C:Logs".
  • AnsiLogs: log current system time each 500ms.
  • Hooks: Support FillConsoleOutputCharacter and FillConsoleOutputAttribute.
  • conemu#1825: Add option to enable/disable ANSI calls to WinApi functions.

New in ConEmu Build 190310 Preview (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Update ChocolateyAbout.cmd to latest installation cmd.
  • conemu#1323, conemu#1385, conemu#1841: Speed up alternative buffer operations (connector).
  • conemu#1323, conemu#1385, conemu#1841: Let ‘Alternative mode’ toolbar button works with console buffers.
  • Connector: When --log is used, log current system time each 500ms.
  • conemu#463: ConEmu.exe switch -NoHooksWarn disabled external hooks checks.
  • Log duration of external hooks checks.
  • conemu#1733: Enable dark theme scrollbars with ConEmu.exe -Theme DarkMode_Explorer.
  • ANSI: Visual Bell for ESC g.

New in ConEmu Build 190303 Preview (Mar 4, 2019)

  • conemu#1840: Fix hung during startup if Environment contains echo -x ....
  • The -FontSize is better name to change font size switch.
  • Allow to do Copy all from load dump screen.
  • conemu#1833: Fix border rendering issues (bar placement).
  • Icon was not autoloaded for some tabs (e.g. pwsh.exe).
  • Add default tasks for ‘PowerShell Core’.
  • Some internal changes in default tasks generation.

New in ConEmu Build 190301 Preview (Mar 2, 2019)

  • conemu#1795: Unexpected ConEmu activation on monitor change.
  • Paste hotkeys Ctrl+V/Shift+Ins didn’t work in Far Manager if selection was present.
  • Eliminate copying delay on Paste if mouse selection is present.

New in ConEmu Build 190225 Preview (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Connector failed to start (regression).

New in ConEmu Build 190217 Preview (Feb 18, 2019)

  • gh-1795: Unexpected ConEmu activation on monitor change.
  • gh-1159, gh-1775: ANSI, tmux, compatibility issues

New in ConEmu Build 190108 Preview (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Start word selection with Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right.
  • Settings/Size & Pos: Apply button ignored invisible part of Win10 frame while setting coordinates.
  • conemu#861: Support RAlt the same way as Alt+Numbers (keypad).
  • Predefined palettes were not initialized in some cases.
  • conemu#1620: Fade colors were wrong if ConEmu was started with -Palette switch.
  • conemu#1623: Let Ctrl+0 and GuiMacro Tab(7,-1) activate last tab.
  • conemu#1637: Show message about absent DosBox required files.
  • Fix unexpected pane-1 activation on mouse hover when pane-2 ChildGui popup dialog is over pane-1.
  • conemu#1662: Escape Char not working for passwords with trailing quote.
  • conemu#1573: Interface language setting was not saved.
  • Add a new option to auto-trim single lines. When pasting a single line ending in newline, the user is presented with a warning about pasting multi-line strings. This enables a new option to automatically strip trailing newlines whenever we detect that a single line string has been pasted. This prevents the warning and allows the user to more conveniently edit single lines pasted into the console.
  • Add German translation to ConEmu.l10n.
  • Add icon ID number for VS2019 in CreateVCTask.
  • GitShowBranch: Case insensitive check for no branch.

New in ConEmu Build 180617 Preview (Jun 18, 2018)

  • Conemu#1590: Quake activation (up/down) did not work properly with ChildGui in tab.
  • Show -switch style in ConEmuC help.
  • Conemu#1240: For those who want to run WinAPI console applications from POSIX layer: ConEmuC -std -c your-command. When you run connector (or wslbridge) console handles are set into POSIX mode, and only applications directly compiled for this mode will behave as they are in tty. In other words, if you run ‘ConEmu/cygwin-connector/bash’ and try to start Python outside of cygwin folder (e.g. downloaded from https://www.python.org/downloads/), the Python will not think it was started in terminal, because it was not linked with cygwin1.dll! The command ConEmuC -std -c python tries to reinitialize console to work like python was started from cmd.
  • Conemu#1567: Fixing ANSI scrolling issues.
  • Slightly expand Settings/Environment editor area.
  • Set default console pad size to 4.
  • Conemu#728, conemu#1570: Easy way to configure cmd prompt in default {cmd} task. When you run {cmd} task or any other task utilizing CmdInit.cmd you may set configuration variables on the Environment settings page:
  • Set ConEmuPromptNL=NO - use one-line prompt;
  • Set ConEmuPromptNames=NO - don’t print user@pc.
  • Let configure csudo from Environment settings page.
  • Set ConEmuSudoSplit=NO - run elevated console in new tab instead of split;
  • Set ConEmuSudoConfirm=NO - disable ‘Press Enter or Esc to close console…’ confirmation.
  • Read more in docs: https://conemu.github.io/en/csudo.html
  • Fix selection artefacts when selected region goes out of the screen.
  • Conemu#1585: Don’t reset search mode by clicking on scrollbar.
  • Support ‘Dynamic scrollbar range’ in search mode.
  • Conemu#1604, conemu#393: Allow users enter buffer height values larger than 9999 to revert to maximum allowed 32766 (by Shawn Presser).
  • Conemu#1259, conemu#1557: ANSI: Some characters disappear by moving cursor with right arrow key.
  • Conemu#1601: Add logging for keyboard indicators CAPS/NUM/SCRL.
  • Support additional batch init scripts in form of {cmd} script.cmd <arguments>. The script.cmd may be surrounded by ", but in that case, due to cmd parsing rules, you should append some script arguments without quotes. In other words, the tail of {cmd} should not end with ".

New in ConEmu Build 180528 Preview (May 29, 2018)

  • Conemu#1583: Let -new_console work in WSL.
  • Note: ConEmuC.exe or ConEmuC64.exe are required to run commands, for example: ConEmuC64.exe -c powershell -new_console.
  • Switch ConEmuC -ConInfo was not working on redirected handles (mintty, connector, wsl).
  • Conemu#1444: ANSI. Fix irssi rendering under tmux.
  • ANSI. Sequence e[Nb repeats output of last written character N times.
  • ANSI: ESC ] 9 ; 10 ; 0 ST stops xterm mode emulation.
  • ANSI. Reports for ESC [ 6 n cursor position relative to viewport (1-based).
  • Conemu#1569: True color mode with powershell doesn’t scroll correctly.
  • Conemu#1579: Changes in escaping rules on pasting POSIX paths (exclamation ! mark).
  • If path contains special characters, strong quoting (single-quote) is used
  • It’s still possible to paste without quotation via GuiMacro
  • In some cases 32-bit ConEmuHk caused access violation on true-color buffer scrolling.

New in ConEmu Build 180506 Preview (May 7, 2018)

  • conemu#884: In some cases Far panels directory were not updated (Tab title, etc.)
  • conemu#1082, conemu#1546: Env.var ConEmuCfgDir was shorter by one char.
  • conemu#1503: Save on timer (every 5 minutes) only startup task if it was changed.
  • conemu#1538: Support user-defined drives mount point in WSL.
  • conemu#1539: Add workaround for 2 pixels cut off client area by autohidden taskbar.
  • Far working directory was not reloaded for %f macro (tab template).
  • Add TaskBar location to LogFile.

New in ConEmu Build 180503 Preview (May 4, 2018)

  • conemu#1539: Resize fixes for auto-hidden Taskbar and caption-less mode.
  • conemu#1545: Fix paste problems in Windows 10 1803 on texts with spaces or CR/LF.
  • Maximized ConEmu was not sized properly after display changes.
  • Default Task: create {bash} if either bash.exe or wsl.exe are found.
  • Improve Windows version detection in dlls.

New in ConEmu Build 180429 Preview (Apr 30, 2018)

  • Fix ‘splitting windows crashes ConEmu’ (01107bd regression).
  • Unable to select text with always-shown scrollbar (0493ff5 regression).

New in ConEmu Build 180427 Preview (Apr 28, 2018)

  • conemu#934: Fix assertion nNewWidth>0 && nNewHeight>0 appeared sometimes after console resize in Windows 10.
  • conemu#1503: Save size/pos/startup-task every minute.
  • conemu#1527: Fix auto-hidden scrollbar, was not revealed on mouse-over (regression 1fd7b5b2).
  • conemu#1526: Improve ‘Duplicate root…’ function.
  • Allow to stop ‘Paused’ mode by Esc key.
  • Build 180422 (preview)

New in ConEmu Build 180422 Preview (Apr 23, 2018)

  • Allow import of xml files without reset of current settings. Example with Dracula color theme: https://gist.github.com/Maximus5/3205332bbc45c8300763157f0fdbe884
  • conemu#1522: Exchange default behavior of Ctrl+V and Shift+Ins. Both hotkeys actions may be configured in Settings/Paste.
  • Ctrl+V inserts multiple lines from clipboard with n inside;
  • Shift+Ins inserts all lines as single line replacing n` with spaces.
  • conemu#1492: AnsiLog may be enabled on per-console basis via -new_console:L:"<path>", where <path> is a folder to store AnsiLog files, e.g. C:Logs. https://conemu.github.io/en/AnsiLogFiles.html
  • Change default folder for AnsiLog files to %UserProfile%DesktopConEmuLogs.

New in ConEmu Build 180418 Preview (Apr 19, 2018)

  • conemu#880: Show the name of selected shell task for Win+X hotkey.
  • conemu#1517: After postponing update the ‘Confirm closing’ dialog stucks.
  • Compact paths (%ConEmuDir%, %ConEmuCfgDir%, etc) by removing .. elements. E.g. C:ConEmusrc..DebugConEmu.xml will be processed now as C:ConEmuDebugConEmu.xml.
  • conemu#1046: Don’t take into account path to xml settings storage in AppID generation if it’s a default xml. If configuration file was set by argument -LoadCfgFile "%ConEmuDir%ConEmu.xml" and it is already the default settings location (the same without -LoadCfgFile switch), than xml path is not used in AppID generation. Note: AppID is utilized during search for appropriate ConEmu instance when -single or -reuse switch were specified.
  • By default add commented LANG variable and some aliases to ‘Environment’ settings page.
  • Hidden cursor may be displayed as inactive (option for debug purposes).
  • Add hotkey for ‘Check for updates’.

New in ConEmu Build 180416 Preview (Apr 17, 2018)

  • Add description for -new_console:t:"title" switch.
  • Disable automatic update in -basic mode unless the -update is specified.
  • conemu#629: Don’t imply ‘AppKeys’ mode (DECCKM) by -cur_console:p or ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT.
  • conemu#1513: Fix erroneously trimmed leading " in commands cmd /c "-new_console script.bat argument".
  • conemu#242: Fix hidden scrollbar glitch on mouseover.

New in ConEmu Build 180415 Preview (Apr 16, 2018)

  • conemu#172: Disable scrolling (mouse wheel and hotkeys) past lowest line.
  • conemu#1509: Previous focused window is incorrectly restored to focus after ‘quake’ minimization.
  • conemu#1511: ANSI: fix n processing in emacs.
  • conemu#1510: Fix for git hangs when Inject ConEmuHk.dll option is enabled (9bce8f14e regression).
  • conemu#1512: Option ‘Restore to active monitor’ shall not override unchecked ‘Restore inactive window by hotkey’.
  • Show options ‘Restore inactive window by hotkey’ and ‘Restore to active monitor’ on the ‘Quake style’ page.
  • When ScrollBar is always shown (in settings) don’t hide it in alternative (xterm) mode.
  • Improve OS information in About/SysInfo and log.

New in ConEmu Build 180411 Preview (Apr 12, 2018)

  • conemu#1402: Workaround for u23CE ? character preceding every prompt in fish on CJK versions of Win10.
  • conemu#1449: DefTerm: Support VS 2017 changes in debugging C# console applications.
  • DefTerm: Do several attempts to attach started console (alternative mode).
  • For new installations automatic updates by default are enabled (same channel as downloaded release).
  • Fix icon path for WSL Bash task.

New in ConEmu Build 180409 Preview (Apr 10, 2018)

  • conemu#1501: One more fix for cursor position after CJK (and other COMMON_LVB_*_BYTE) glyphs on Windows 10.
  • Fix custom startup command in ‘Fast configuration’ dialog (44b40e6 regression).
  • Add ConEmu.l10n (localization file) to portable and installer.

New in ConEmu Build 180408 Preview (Apr 9, 2018)

  • Add ‘Interface language’ field to ‘Fast configuration’ dialog.
  • New first page ‘General’ in the ‘Settings’ dialog contains several most used options and language selection.
  • Default update channel now is the same as downloaded release (stable/preview/alpha).
  • conemu#1404: Update Far Manager panels dragging cursor hotspot.
  • conemu#1484, conemu#701: Menu item ‘New console dialog…’ in the tab and system menus.
  • conemu#1402: Add debug assertions for troubleshooting.
  • conemu#1420: Option ‘Restore inactive window by hotkey’ to change Minimize/Restore behavior, new default is ‘if out of focus, minimize instead of focus’.
  • conemu#751: Minimizing ConEmu (Quake animation) should return focus to the previous window.
  • conemu#1502: Text cursor disappear when use default {Bash::MinGW bash} task.
  • conemu#1501: Add cursor position test to ConEmuC -CheckUnicode.
  • conemu#1494: Add <Babun> color scheme.
  • Update Connector modules to v1.2.5.

New in ConEmu Build 180318 Alpha (Mar 19, 2018)

  • Feature ‘Extend foreground colors’ was removed.
  • Don’t be CPU consuming in background.
  • conemu#1456: VS Extension fails to start ConEmu with error ‘Can’t create new virtual console!’.
  • conemu#1467: Let hotkey ‘Create new window’ take into account confirmation setting.
  • conemu#1478: Fix for unexpected error during ConEmu -UpdateJumpList -Exit.
  • conemu#1402: Add some more tricks to find WinAPI problems: ConEmuC -CheckUnicode.
  • conemu#1480: Update wslbridge to version 0.2.4.

New in ConEmu Build 180309 Preview (Mar 11, 2018)

  • Tab tooltip was not shown for Far editor/viewer tabs
  • Ellipsis was not shown for long tab titles
  • conemu#1440: Fix error dialog when toggling ‘Show buttons (toolbar) in tab bar’
  • Workaround for unexpected WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_EVENT appeared after console scrolling
  • Installer: readme.txt in the ConEmuScripts folder
  • conemu#1466: ANSI FG/BG reset codes did not reset bright intensity
  • Settings/Environment was not saved properly (last new line was stripped)
  • Write to ANSI Log calls to certain console WinAPI functions. Example: ^[]9;11;"cmd.exe: SetConsoleCursorPosition(0,0)"^[
  • In some cases output of certain tools was printed as ‘black on black’. Ref: https://superuser.com/q/1198421/139371 Related?: conemu#1342
  • conemu#1393, conemu#1469: Fix jumbled output from git log/diff, reverse scrolling speed
  • conemu#1366: Mouse cursor was not updated while hovering over ChildGui

New in ConEmu Build 180206 Alpha (Feb 6, 2018)

  • Toolbar buttons Min/Max/Close dissapears after toggling ‘Show buttons in tab bar’.
  • Lines were not erased properly from multiline xml entries (Environment variables, aliases, cp).
  • TitleBar was not painted properly if theming was disabled.
  • Error message was not displayed if 7-zip was not found.
  • Write to log Theming and DWM flags.

New in ConEmu Build 180131 Alpha (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Environment settings (and other multiline values) were not loaded from xml properly (xmlparser regression).
  • conemu#1427, conemu#1428: Fix TitleBar glitches whith option ‘Hide caption when maximized’.

New in ConEmu Build 180130 Alpha (Jan 30, 2018)

  • Use internal XML parser instead of msxml3.dll.
  • conemu#1369, conemu#1406: Resize refactoring; refactoring of ideal/stored normal rect.
  • conemu#1426: Fix resize glitches if TabBar was set to ‘Auto show’.
  • conemu#1410: Correct TabBar height if system DPI was set to custom value.
  • conemu#1404: Resize Far Manager panels separately. If mouse cursor is over panels bottom edge at center - resize panels heights simultaneously, otherwise - resize panels separately.
  • Rename option to ‘Adjust font size for monitor DPI’.
  • Don’t print download progress: ConEmuC.exe -download -nolog ....
  • Erase deleted Tasks/Palettes/AppDistinct options from xml file on save.

New in ConEmu Build 180114 Alpha (Jan 15, 2018)

  • Fix frame gaps when maximizing caption-less window on Windows 10.
  • Drag window by frame top if caption is hidden and TabBar is hidden or shown at the bottom.
  • Fix wrong TabBar position when ‘Tabs on bottom’ is checked.
  • conemu#1369: Fixes for unexpected unthemed title bar appeared in some cases.
  • conemu#1400: Allow resize Far panels with mouse if border fore color match back 4bit color.

New in ConEmu Build 180111 Alpha (Jan 11, 2018)

  • Resize fixes for quake mode in Windows 10.
  • Don’t turn on ‘self-resizable’ frame on mouse-hover if the frame is already resizable.
  • Settings/Integration: If the ‘Command’ field contains only -nosingle and no -run, don’t add -run BEFORE -nosingle.
  • conemu#1395: Settings/Integration: Force Explorer to use hotkey if ‘&’ is specified.
  • conemu#1369: Some more logging on changing window style.
  • conemu#1355, conemu#1393: Fix backscrolling with pager (git bash started from connector).
  • New image-base for ConEmuHk64: 0x7E1100000000.

New in ConEmu Build 180108 Alpha (Jan 9, 2018)

  • A lot of resize fixes.
  • Fix snap to desktop edges on Win8 when caption is not hidden and ‘Frame width’ set to non-negative value.
  • Fix wrong StatusBar size (it was greater) when caption is hidden.
  • Proper ‘OriginalFilename’ in version info.
  • Proper sizing cursor for caption-less window with positive Frame width.
  • During text selection IBeam cursor was set for many superflous areas.
  • Fix wrong Aero peek position for caption-less window with positive ‘Frame width’.
  • Fix window size and TabBar/StatusBar/Workspace position when caption is hidden and ‘frame width’ is zero.
  • Don’t force show frame during dragging the ConEmu window.
  • Fix GDI resources leak (564d6449 regression).

New in ConEmu Build 171226 Alpha (Dec 27, 2017)

  • Resize fixes.
  • conemu#1364: Fix missed slash in the installer temp directory for %TEMP%ConEmuYYMMDD.
  • conemu#348, conemu#1231, conemu#1372: Let background image cover VCon pad areas too.
  • conemu#1373: Fix NestedCallLevel <= 2 assertion in ConEmu-Inside when parent window has zero size.
  • conemu#1374: Explorer context menu integration didn’t start console in the folder, if starting task has /dir %CD% in the task parameters.
  • conemu#1269: Special keys were applied multiple times for GroupInput in xterm mode.
  • Add GetConsoleKeyboardLayoutName result to ConEmuC -checkunicode.

New in ConEmu Build 171217 Alpha (Dec 17, 2017)

  • conemu#1349: When reopening Settings dialog, show last selected section.
  • conemu#165: Allow to move Quake console between monitors by hotkeys.
  • conemu#275, conemu#1345: Resize changes in caption-less mode.
  • conemu#1350, conemu#1351: Fix wrong VCon position and gaps colors in split-screen mode.
  • A lot of internal changes fixing deprecated string functions warnings.
  • Use BASE addresses above 4GB for better ASLR optimization (ConEmuCD64, ConEmuHk64).

New in ConEmu Build 171205 Alpha (Dec 6, 2017)

  • conemu#1345: Hide visible frame under TaskBar in maximized mode.
  • conemu#1347: Fix crash when setting hotkey for a task (per-mon-dpi regression).
  • conemu#1346: Tabs didn’t appear when ‘Tabs on bottom’ is set.
  • conemu#1346: Refresh Tabs position after ‘Tabs on bottom’ change.
  • conemu#935: Workaround for injection failure in Windows 7 on some processes (in progress).
  • StatusBar: show current window and tile modes for debug purposes - column ‘ConEmu window mode’.
  • StatusBar: fix wrong painting position during resize with mouse in some cases.

New in ConEmu Build 171203 Alpha (Dec 4, 2017)

  • Hotkey Apps+C didn’t update ‘Hide caption always’ checkbox.
  • conemu#1329: Fix progress detection in console window title.
  • conemu#1206: correct position after こんばんはGood Evening.
  • conemu#1321: Close tabs to the right (menu, hotkey, macro).
  • conemu#1236: Proper fix for 1638b9b5 (kernel debug log to fill on Win10).
  • conemu#275, conemu#1226: Resize refactoring: dialogs, per-monitor dpi, caption-less mode etc.
  • Fix yanking while dragging the window by its contents with ‘Snap to desktop edges’ enabled.
  • Connector: Fix infinite waiting on shell exit.
  • conemu#1332: Delay in response to any keypress on connector shells.

New in ConEmu Build 171117 Alpha (Nov 19, 2017)

  • Option ‘Dynamic scrollbar range’ was not working for not-hooked console applications (e.g. wsl.exe).
  • conemu#1306, conemu#460: Perhaps this fixes unexpected ‘Tool window’.
  • In some cases ‘underline’ and ‘reverse’ had no effect.
  • Switch -cur_console:hXXX was ignored on console restart.
  • Connector: Enable log input to file connector-XXXX-in.log with --log.
  • conemu#1317: GuiMacro SetOption("bgImage", "C:background.jpg").
  • conemu#1051, conemu#1111, conemu#1138: Cursor position fix for Win10 after CJK glyphs.
  • conemu#1311: Connector: Input may entirely stop functioning over time.
  • conemu#1318: If checkbox ‘Support UNC paths in cmd.exe’ is not checked, rely on real registry value.
  • conemu#1271: Fix for caret position when our dialog is active.
  • conemu#1204: Get mount root prefix from connector automatically. It is used on paste paths to cygwin/msys consoles, e.g. when you paste C:My Sources you’ll get /cygdrive/c/My Sources.
  • conemu#275: Fix dialog glitches moving between monitors.
  • conemu#275: Fix GUI glitches while moving ConEmu window to monitor with different DPI.

New in ConEmu Build 171025 Alpha (Oct 26, 2017)

  • connector#15: Support graphics output in some versions of mc.
  • conemu#1265: Fix crash in Windows 7 on starting elevated console.
  • conemu#1271: Update caret position to help accessibilty tools (e.g. Magnifier).
  • conemu#661: Disable ‘Close ConEmu with last tab’ if it’s prohibited. Some switches (-MinTSA, -NoAutoClose, …) tells ConEmu to stay or minimize (into TaskBar status area) instead of termination ConEmu process when all its consoles goes out.
  • conemu#1284: Globally registered (WinAPI) hotkeys may use only general modifiers (e.g. Ctrl instead of RCtrl/LCtrl).
  • Add ‘swap’ to hotkey description (Split: Exchange (swap) with …)
  • Change button name to ‘Add/refresh default tasks…’
  • conemu#1261: Improve conemu#1164 workaround (Win10 conhost bug with cleared contents on resize).
  • conemu#1288: Use ANSI to underline text. Since now, ambiguous sequences like ESC[1m, ESC[3m, ESC[4m, ESC[5m are not used to increase the brightness of background/foreground colors, instead they are used to set ‘bold’, ‘inverse’ and ‘underline’ attributes. To set bright text or background colors one may use sequences ESC [ 90…97 m or ESC [ 100…107 m accordingly.
  • Let ConEmuC -CheckUnicode output samples with extended attributes.
  • New option ‘Dynamic scrollbar range’ on ‘Appearance’ settings page. When enabled, ConEmu tries to determine filled area in RealConsole.
  • Improve -new_console description.
  • conemu#1293: LastError was erased on printf.
  • conemu#1298: Force to load .profile in WSL.
  • conemu#1291: Support wsl.exe and ubuntu.exe - turn on/off XA modes automatically.

New in ConEmu Build 170910 Alpha (Sep 11, 2017)

  • Let ‘Context help’ button open corresponding page on conemu.github.io.
  • Clicking anywere below the prompt line caused prolonged cursor blinking. ConEmu tried to move text cursor to the clicked position, which caused numerous ‘Right arrow’ clicks. Since now ConEmu would not try to advance text cursor forward, if user clicks on the empty space (line) below the prompt.
  • Button Startup dir... on Tasks settings page didn’t insert space-separator.
  • GroupInput blocked input on terminals.
  • When user runs ConEmu -reuse -min -run ... don’t restore existing window, but minimize it.
  • ConEmu content was erased on decreasing window height or splitting.
  • Fix the gap on the right of the child GUI window, when scrollbar is set to be always shown.
  • Fix crash on text selection (mouse double click).
  • GuiMacro: Use SetOption to change color palettes.

New in ConEmu Build 170819 Alpha (Aug 21, 2017)

  • gh-1164, gh-1216, gh-1219: Workaround for Window 10 conhost bug when content is erased on resize.
  • gh-1212: After ‘Unfasten’, unfastened console loses arrow key capability.

New in ConEmu Build 170814 Alpha (Aug 16, 2017)

  • gh-1224: Process dead chars AltGr+~ and AltGr+` in XTerm emulation.
  • SettingsDebug: Show XTerm keyboard and mouse sequences in ‘Input’ mode.

New in ConEmu Build 170807 Preview (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Switch -fork was not working (e.g. ConEmuC -fork -c powershell).
  • gh-1220: Fix AltGr+Key sent with XTerm keyboard emulation (e.g. tilde and square brackets on german keyboard).
  • gh-740: Flexible config allowing or disallowing POSIX paths conversion.
  • If mount prefix is disabled with -new_console:p:- switch than autoconversion is disabled.
  • GuiMacro Paste doesn’t do autoconversion with exception of mode Paste(8) which does.
  • Checkboxes ‘Allow Windows to POSIX path conversion’ on ‘Paste’ and ‘App distinct’ setting pages.
  • Add -settings switch to ConEmu.exe.
  • Escape special symbols in POSIX path autoconversion on paste (e.g. /c/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/).
  • Add wiki link to each settings page.

New in ConEmu Build 170805 Preview (Aug 7, 2017)

  • conemu#1211: Pressing Enter in nano editor didn’t insert new line.
  • Fix missed icon for {Bash::bash} task.
  • conemu#1209: Node and undefined in the process.env.foobar.
  • Show proper terminal modes in Settings/Info dialog page.
  • Conversion from POSIX to native paths improved.
  • Proper prefix is used (autodetected or specified via -new_console:p:/mnt switch).
  • Paths ~ and subpaths are ignored for now, we can’t even map ~ from WSL to native.
  • XTerm mouse wheel emulation changes.
  • VIM emulation e[62~ .. [65~ is removed.
  • If console application has not requested mouse events, ConEmu sends Wheel events as Up/Down arrow key presses, and Shift+Wheel events as PgUp/PgDn key presses.
  • In come cases when using Connector ANSI sequences were not processed by ConEmu.
  • conemu#999: Fix ‘RuntimeError: Failed to beep’ when running Python in ConEmu.

New in ConEmu Build 170723 Alpha (Jul 24, 2017)

  • gh-1198, gh-1136, gh-1009: XTerm keyboard emulation for Ctrl+key.
  • gh-1200: ‘Sync dir’ feature was broken for bash.

New in ConEmu Build 170709 Alpha (Jul 10, 2017)

  • gh-1175: Take into account modifier keys (Ctrl,Alt,Shift) pressed in the hotkey settings field.
  • New environment variable ConEmuBaseDirShort contains short path like C:PROGRA~1ConEmuConEmu.
  • gh-1082: New environment variable ConEmuCfgDir contains directory where xml file was loaded from.
  • gh-1178: Use short path to connector for launching from git-cmd. Recreate defult tasks to obtain changes or edit task command manually (change %ConEmuBaseDir% to %ConEmuBaseDirShort%).

New in ConEmu Build 170705 Alpha (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Cygwin/Msys connector is updated to version 1.0 (https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsysConnector.html). Hooks are not injected into cygwin/msys applications if they were runned from connector. As a result some speed up execution and elimination of any BLODA conditions is expected. If one needs ConEmuHk to be loaded into some process, e.g. while starting non-cygwin application like cmd.exe from cygwin shell, they may use ConEmuC.exe as loader. For example, run “ConEmuC.exe -c cmd.exe” instead of “cmd.exe”.
  • Use connector in new default cygwin/msys/git-for-windows tasks.
  • gh-1008: Add hotkey Apps+Alt+G to group input for selected panes. So one may add or remove console to input group by activating it and pressing the Apps+Alt+G (configurable). Consoles may belong to different splits/tabs.
  • Far Macro: ConEmu.CtrlNumber.lua to switch panel modes by Ctrl+Shift+Numbers.
  • Use Shift+LClick or Alt+LClick to mark the end of selection. User may start selection (by Shift+LClick, Shift+Arrow or any other way) and after that extend it by Shift+LClick to clicked postion. To create block selection use Alt+LClick to mark one selection corner and second Alt+LClick to mark opposite corner. Inspired by https://superuser.com/q/1218047/139371
  • Option ‘Use credentials for network resources only’ in ‘Create new console’ dialog (from Peter.Maksimov). Switch -new_console:e is available in Tasks and command lines.
  • Create/restart console dialog redesign.

New in ConEmu Build 170622 Alpha (Jun 23, 2017)

  • Swap nearest panes with Apps+Alt+X, swap in direction with Apps+Alt+Arrow.
  • Let Apps+Shift+G group input for all consoles (instead of only visible panes like Apps+G does).
  • Use by default Ctrl+Numbers to switch consoles (instead of Win+Numbers).
  • Use by default Win+Shift+Q for ‘Switch next console’ by default. Leave hotkey Win+Q to Windows. The Win+Shift+Q may be useful to switch Tabs when ChildGui is active.

New in ConEmu Build 170605 Alpha (Jun 6, 2017)

  • gh-1149: Fix crash in wide consoles, when the cursor goes over 200 col (f8907a1 regression).

New in ConEmu Build 170517 Alpha (May 18, 2017)

  • gh-1039: Use Win+Shift+G as default hotkey for ‘Attach to…’ action.
  • Add option ‘Leave opened’ in the ‘Attach to…’ dialog (Win+Shift+G). Would be useful to examine output of some long running script after it finishes.
  • gh-1098: Add ‘Rename tab’ option for ‘Double click on tab’.
  • Use ‘Rename tab’ as default option for ‘Double click on tab’.
  • gh-1097: Don’t count ‘System’ process as running process (close confirmation).
  • Cross-click closing confirmation was not shown if ‘Confirm tab’=Off and ‘Confirm window’=On.
  • Detach improvements:
  • GuiMacro: Detach(3) for seamless updating from Chocolatey
  • Try to set the console font to same size as ConEmu uses
  • No debug assertions
  • GuiMacro: Close(2) is asynchronous now. This is because of GuiServer thread waiting for synchronous macro completion, but this thread is required to be terminated when ConEmu window is closing…
  • Use Win7 TaskDialog for ‘Add default tasks’ confirmation.
  • DefTerm: Take into account xml file specified by -loadcfgfile switch. Default Terminal options have to be saved by ‘Apply’ button on the settings page.
  • gh-661: When ConEmu started with ‘-Detached’ switch (implied by DefTerm in some cases) option ‘Close ConEmu with last tab’ was unchecked. If old behavior is required, the switch ‘-NoAutoClose’ may be used.
  • Admin shield was not shown on TabBar if ConEmu was started under Admin.
  • Real console font size dialog: show hint if created font height differs.
  • gh-1012, gh-1121: Dirty workaround for AVDefender/Bitdefender bug raising a crash in the RegQueryValueEx. Warning! ConEmu physically can’t fix 3rd-paty bugs! This commit just skips process bitness detection if we already may be sure about it. But the bug/crash may appear in some other situations, so it’s better to report the problem to the authors.
  • gh-156, gh-805: Detach powershell console during Chocolatey’s update ConEmu package.
  • gh-1135, gh-1021: Create default tasks for Visual Studio 2017 and x64 targets.
  • gh-1051, gh-1111, gh-1138: Workaround for Windows 10 bug with cursor position after CJK glyphs (Also: gh-1083, gh-1096).
  • gh-1051, gh-1111, gh-1138: More Win10 bug workarounds (cursor position after CJK).

New in ConEmu Build 170402 Preview (Apr 4, 2017)

  • gh-1085, gh-1087: Git 1.9.5 had failed to rebase (regression: 597d81f; ref: gh-688, gh-1063).

New in ConEmu Build 170326 Preview (Mar 28, 2017)

  • Move window to active monitor by ‘Minimize/Restore’ hotkey if ‘Restore to active monitor’ is checked (ref gh-255).
  • Don’t force ConEmu window to ‘active monitor’ unless -monitor XXX switch or ‘Restore to active monitor’ are specified.
  • Minor fix in startup pos/size adjustment (Win10, FixWindowRect).
  • Run as ‘System’ failed when session was opened via RDP.

New in ConEmu Build 170316 Preview (Mar 17, 2017)

  • gh-787: Improve scroll by prompts by skipping empty lines above prompts.
  • gh-1058: Apply button was not auto-enabled on entering negative X coord in the Settings dialog.
  • gh-1061: Fix GUI crash if Far panels has no column titles.
  • Make magnetic snap to edges friendly for Windows Aero Snap feature.
  • gh-1047: Display ampersands (&) in tab titles.
  • gh-688, gh-1063: Fix ‘Long console output’ in Far 1.x and 2.x.
  • gh-1067: Log errors in GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.

New in ConEmu Build 170118 Preview (Jan 19, 2017)

  • Pasted paths to WSL bash were not converted to Unix style (/mnt/…).
  • connector#10: Unicode u23CE ⏎ character preceding every prompt in ConEmu. Ref: gh-586, Maximus5/connector#10, fish-shell/fish-shell#789 Check: Maximus5/connector#19
  • ConEmu’s echo and type commands were cropped sometimes. If RealConsole (conhost window) was created larger than expected by ConEmu GUI, than echo and type printed text using this larger size and after shrinking conhost window (up to Windows 8.1) part of data was cropped.
  • gh-451: Support multi-line (wrapped) hyperlinks (URLs) for Ctrl+Click.
  • gh-986: Don’t change prompt text cursor position by LClick above the prompt.
  • gh-1007: Add more logging to mouse wheel processing.
  • Improve hyperlink detector on ‘git diff’ outputs.
  • gh-1007: Disable ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE by default.
  • Add logging of console mode changes.
  • Improve hyperlink detector on #include-s with absolute paths.
  • Moving some prompt features to GUI (Click & CtrlBS). Ref: gh-986, gh-317, gh-845 Now ‘Change prompt text cursor position with Left Click’ and ‘Ctrl+Backspace - delete word leftward to the text cursor’ are process by ConEmu GUI without posting command to ConEmuHk. The feature requires properly reported by the shell prompt start pos. For bare cmd.exe it’s done automatically by ConEmuHk. All other shells must report the start of the prompt with ANSI.
  • https://conemu.github.io/en/AnsiEscapeCodes.html#ConEmu_specific_OSC
  • https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsysConnector.html For example, while using bash and connector you may add to the end of your PS1 the following sequence: [33]9;1207].

New in ConEmu Build 161203 (Dec 4, 2016)

  • StatusBar. new column ‘Cell Info’ shows information about cell under cursor: UCS & ConAttr. CellInfo is turned on by default in ‘-basic’ mode to simplify bug reporting.
  • gh-809: Support mount root for unix-path conversion. ConEmu tries to choose mount root automatically, if user have not defined it explicitly with ‘-cur_console:m:/mnt’ switch. For example, to use ‘/cygdrive’ just run your console with switch: ‘-cur_console:m:/cygdrive’.
  • In some cases ConEmu window was closed unexpectedly during initialization. That happend if delay between consoles initialization was greater than first console run duration. So, ConEmu was closed before second console process was created.
  • gh-943: Rename option to ‘Change mouse cursor if busy’.
  • Add switch ConEmuC -IsRedirect to determine if CONOUT is redirected.
  • Force enable mouse events processing in KeyEvents.
  • gh-964: Let default {Far} task load plugins from FARPROFILE.
  • gh-927: Appropriate behavior while posting chars with AltGr pressed. Example: print("*") when Lithuanian keyboard layout is selected.
  • Support clickable links like ‘example-protocol://someurl’. Origin: http://superuser.com/q/1152465/139371

New in ConEmu Build 161022 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • gh-910: Fix regression: slower startup.
  • File wsl-con.cmd was created by msi in wrong folder.
  • Far Macro. Some improvements in ConEmu.CtrlNumber.lua
  • Console test (ConEmuC -checkunicode) improved.
  • gh-919: Fix misprint.
  • Some internal changes in hooking: support KernelBase for installing injects.

New in ConEmu Build 161009a (Oct 18, 2016)

  • gh-896: Fix regression: cygwin/msys process creation was broken.

New in ConEmu Build 161009 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • GuiMacro: Allow {Task} arguments in Shell function.
  • Reuse previous palette on Unfasten/Re-Attach.
  • gh-888: Allow to use ConEmu as default console in third-party applications.
  • DefTerm. Reinit some functions in SetAllHook
  • gh-830: Fix: Significant dwm.exe CPU time when renamed ConEmu tab is active.
  • gh-886: Settings / Integration: When ‘Shift’ is pressed during ‘Register’ button click, ConEmu’s ‘Here’ and ‘Inside’ items are registered as ‘extended’ menu items, and they are shown by Explorer only when ‘Shift’ is pressed.
  • Show process startup time in SysInfo and LogFiles.
  • Far macro emulating Ctrl+Number on LCtrl+Shift+Number keypress.

New in ConEmu Build 161002 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • gh-879: Fix doubled CJK glyphs on Windows 10 build 14931. Windows 10 (since 14931) has changed behavior for double-cell glyphs. Now they are doubled (COMMON_LVB_LEADING_BYTE/COMMON_LVB_TRAILING_BYTE) even for UTF-8 codepage.
  • gh-871: Selection was not working in Alternative mode.
  • Turn on certain StatusBar columns on -basic switch.
  • Switch /OMITHOOKSWARN was passed improperly to server when /log was defined.
  • Sample file demonstrates ability to use 256 colors in Windows Subsystem for Linux started in ConEmu tab.

New in ConEmu Build 160914 (Sep 16, 2016)

  • gh-863: Unchecking option ‘Kill ssh-agent with ConEmu’ had no effect.
  • Suggest %UserProfile%ConEmuLogs as default location for ANSI logs.

New in ConEmu Build 160913 (Sep 14, 2016)

  • Add option to kill ssh-agent.exe processes started from ConEmu’s consoles on ConEmu termination. Read more at: https://conemu.github.io/en/SshAgent.html
  • Installer was signed without timestamp.

New in ConEmu Build 160904 (Sep 5, 2016)

  • GuiMacro: Detach(1) didn’t disable confirmation.
  • gh-841: Support COMMON_LVB_REVERSE_VIDEO console attribute.
  • gitextensions/gitextensions#3263: Inside mode: Don’t run console ‘As Admin’ if Shift is pressed.
  • Remove ambiguous option to run started elevated console (Run As Admin). If ConEmu was started by some shortcut with Shift key, user faced the unexpected UAC confirmation.
  • If user want to run elevated console, they may use special Task with -cur_console:a switch. Example: {cmd (Admin)}.
  • If developer want to run ConEmu console in elevated mode, they may add -cur_console:a switch after -run switch. Example: ConEmu.exe -run cmd.exe -cur_console:a /k .

New in ConEmu Build 160828 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • gi-821: Fixed crash on startup if Explorer is not started.
  • Support sha256 checksum in chocolatey package.
  • gh-832: Fix crash on erasing ‘Settings->Keys & Macro->Mark/Copy->Exceptions’.
  • gh-766: Prefer ‘TEMP’ env.var over GetTempPath function.
  • GuiMacro: Let Detach(1) do the work without confirmation.

New in ConEmu Build 160724 (Jul 26, 2016)

  • gh-780: Fix crash on drawing certain text data.

New in ConEmu Build 160710 (Jul 11, 2016)

  • gh-766: ConEmuSetup improvements and error handling.
  • Don’t show MessageBox in auto mode (chocolatey, autoupdate);
  • Log error messages to log-file in the exe’s folder;
  • In case TEMP directory is inaccessible, just use exe’s folder.
  • gh-740: Try to convert paths to cygwin style if clipboard doesn’t contain n while pasting to cygwin/msys shells.
  • In some cases ‘Alternative font’ was not used for first cell in a row (1536b94 regression).

New in ConEmu Build 160707 (Jul 8, 2016)

  • gh-752: Fn keys were not processed by Keys GuiMacro.
  • gh-742: Improve installer error reporting, don’t show error code twice.
  • gh-739: New option ‘Compress long strings to fit space’ is turned on by default. By unchecking that option you’ll get ‘old’ behavior, when ConEmu just trims text, which overruns dedicated space. Read comments in the issue for details: https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/739
  • In some cases old text was not cleared properly with a consequent garbage on the screen.
  • gh-741: Text compression/expansion logic changed, using ‘elasticity’ now.
  • In some cases Font changes were not applied properly.
  • gh-741, gh-722: Glyphs widths evaluation and alignment were changed. So, symbols are expected to be painted properly, uncropped. Examples: U+276F (❯), U+2794 (➔), U+27F6 (⟶).
  • gh-761: Support ‘Terminate all but shell’ for git-cmd.exe.

New in ConEmu Build 160619 (Jun 21, 2016)

  • Command ‘ConEmuC -ConInfo’ prints current console tech info.
  • Let intercept GetWindowLong(GWL_STYLE) for console window handle (ref gh-727, gh-719). Far 3.0 since build 4698 tries to query GWL_STYLE for console window?
  • l10n. New language resources.
  • gh-735: Add all marked tasks to Jump List, use TaskBar history limit value only for History items.
  • gh-740: Conversion to linux path on paste was not working for ‘Single line’ mode.
  • Option ‘Autoupdate’ on Settings/TaskBar/Windows 7 Taskbar. If checked, Jump Lists will be updated automatically when user check the ‘Taskbar jump lists’ checkbox in Task properties.
  • Do not add new Tasks to Jump List by default, let user explicitly check ‘Taskbar jump lists’.
  • Installer (MSI): Don’t suggest Far Manager’s folder by default.

New in ConEmu Build 160612 (Jun 15, 2016)

  • Terminal modes were not displayed on Settings/Info page.
  • gh-716: Cygwin/msys connector output was broken after starting nano.
  • gh-722: Treat Unicode range U+2700..U+27BF as double width glyphs.
  • gh-718: Minimal cursor size option was ignored for invalid console cursor size (zero size).
  • gh-719: Write cursor information and console window rect to log file.
  • Print more console information in ConEmuC -checkunicode.
  • gh-723: Let ‘Minimize/Restore’ hotkey act in spite of ‘Always on top’ mode.
  • Don’t process (append) environment variable twice (ref gh-724). Example: PATH=%ConEmuBaseDir%\Scripts;%PATH%;C:\Tools\Arc So, do not add %ConEmuBaseDir%\Scripts; and ;C:\Tools\Arc if they already exist in PATH. Only explicit comparison is done, so, if C:\Tools\Arc is in the middle of current %PATH%, it would be processed (appended).
  • Fix: Console progress 0% was detected during tab startup (regression 69439a3).
  • Default task {Far}: don’t double plugin folders to avoid doubled lines in F11 (Far 1.x and Far 2.x /p switch problem).
  • gh-700: Show tab icon for Far editors and viewers if ‘Far windows’ option is off.

New in ConEmu Build 160609 (Jun 10, 2016)

  • gh-712: Total consoles count was not displayed in the title properly (regression 7ed745b).
  • gh-678: Selection vanished from screen after multiple page selection.
  • System menu item ‘Debug’ -> ‘Dump screen’ saved empty png file.
  • Fix Shift-Home selection in cmd.exe prompt after Tab-completion. First Shift-Home is expected to select the typed command without prompt. Sequential Shift-Home keypresses select and unselect prompt part.
  • Let Shift-Home select multiline commands in cmd.exe prompt.
  • gh-687: Settings page ‘Integration’ -> ‘ANSI execution’ to control allowed code and macro.
  • This allows ConEmu specific OSC to be executed: ^]]9;6;"*macro*"^]\ and ^]]9;7;"*cmd*"^]\.
  • Since now, they allowed by default in cmd.exe only (were implemented for GitShowBranch.cmd). User may also disable or enable they for any process.
  • Also, there is a list of allowed commands. Commands are case-sensitive, one line - one command. User may use * to allow bunch of commands by ‘mask’.

New in ConEmu Build 160607 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • Settings simplification: radio buttons were removed from ‘Settings/Mouse/Mouse button actions’. In Far Manager RBtn and MBtn clicks are bypassed to console if is selected.
  • Non-unique hotkey modifier check was improved.
  • Warning fixes (from Michael Lukashov).

New in ConEmu Build 160605 Preview (Jun 6, 2016)

  • User was enable to enter list of executables on AppDistinct settings page (regression).
  • Option ‘New window’ in the create new console dialog started ConEmu with wrong arguments (no xml, etc.)
  • DefTerm. Option ‘Register on OS startup’ did not use specified xml file.
  • gh-698: Fix crash on copy selected text in HTML format if raster font is used.
  • Fix conditon for key posting (ref: gh-641).
  • gh-667: Alt+GrayPlus+HexNumbers changes.
  • Alt+GrayPlus is bypassed to Far Manager by default. User still may set up explicit hotkey for ‘Start Alt+Number mode’ action.
  • Option ‘Alt+NumpadAdd - unicode hex codebase’ on the ‘Keyboard’ page (has no effect in Far Manager).
  • gh-629: Try to enable xterm keyboard emulation automatically (BashOnWindows).

New in ConEmu Build 160529 Preview (May 30, 2016)

  • gh-457: Support DefTerm feature for Idle (Pythonw.exe) and VisualStudio Code (code.exe).
  • DefTerm: ConEmu crashed if it’s closed during DefTerm initialization.
  • DefTerm: Don’t warn user if requested process is already closed.

New in ConEmu Build 160522 Preview (May 23, 2016)

  • gh-682: Multi-line paste Enter confirmation setting was not being saved.
  • gh-681: Allow NodeJSPortable.exe to run node in the same ConEmu tab.
  • gh-654: Feature ‘Drag ConEmu window by client area’ may be disabled on ‘Mouse’ Settings page.
  • gh-370: Option ‘Auto save/restore opened tabs’ saved wrong split config in some cases.
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#23: Don’t show Min/Max/Close buttons in the ‘Inside’ mode
  • StatusBar was painted using wrong ‘fade’ status in some cases (ConEmuInside).
  • ConEmu ‘Here’ and ‘Inside’ improvements (Integration Settings page). Now the command will be registered and displayed properly if ConEmu was started with special switches like -LoadCfgFile, -LngFile and others.
  • Recommended: -reuse over -single. -reuse does not enforce ‘single’ mode in the started instance.
  • gh-573: Support ANSI sequence to set cursor style (DECSCUSR, VT520).
  • If ‘Multiple consoles …’ were unchecked and ConEmu window is empty (either -detached or not closed with last closed tab) than it was impossible to reuse empty window to create new console.
  • Use proper parameters for new window (e.g. started from ‘Create new console’ dialog).

New in ConEmu Build 160515 Alpha (May 17, 2016)

  • ConEmuInside: In some cases (VisualStudio pane) ConEmu failed to detect ‘focused’ state.
  • Split settings page ‘Controls’ into ‘Keyboard’ and ‘Mouse’ (alignment pending).
  • Settings page ‘Quake style’ for pull-down related options.
  • Settings for ChildGui moved to separate page (Integration / Children GUI).
  • cmderdev/cmder#929: Fullscreen was not activated properly in some cases (part of ConEmu was obscured by TaskBar).
  • gh-673: GuiMacro SetWindowPosSize: fix changing size w/o changing pos (by @jcsullins).
  • Was not able to use xml file from drive root. Now it’s possible to run, for example: “ConEmu -loadcfgfile Z:\ConEmu.exe”.
  • Show version stage in the Settings and About dialog titles. E.g.: ‘About ConEmu 160506 [64] {Preview}’.
  • More Settings/Debug/Exec improvements. CD was not captured in some cases, as a consequence contents of @file was not captured too. Also, @file processing is doing synchronously now.
  • Avoid using of deprecated googlecode location for version information. If user had old build of ConEmu installed, and old version location info was stored in the xml, they would fail to receive new versions. Now, old deprecated locations are ignored and ConEmu uses the default place instead.

New in ConEmu Build 160504 Alpha (May 5, 2016)

  • gh-660: Fix crash on ConEmu.exe exit (32-bit).
  • Separate process creation from module/inject activities. On Settings/Info/Debug page new ‘Exec’ option shows only ShellExecute and CreateProcess activities. The ‘Shell’ options is unchanged: ‘Exec’ + injects + modules.
  • l10n: Update resources (Debug activities).

New in ConEmu Build 160503 Alpha (May 5, 2016)

  • gh-661: If ConEmu started with -detached switch, option ‘Close with last tab’ couldn’t be changed.
  • Improve debug shell logging (source of @file without paths). Settings/Info/Debug has ‘Shell’ option which shows processes creation information. E.g. if you run project make, and make executes lnk @arguments, the arguments is usually temporary file, which contains actual agruments for linking. ConEmu tries to locate the file (passed to lnk without path) and shows its contents in Settings/Info/Debug.

New in ConEmu Build 160428 Alpha (Apr 29, 2016)

  • One more fix for custom frame width (Quake) and ‘gaps’.
  • Revert gh-621 patch. Just post KeyUp(Alt) before pasting.
  • New feature ‘Adjust lightness of indistinguishable text’ on the ‘Colors’ settings page. The idea is to make text readable if certain foreground and background colors are indistinguishable for current palette. ConEmu will try to change the lightness of the foreground text.
  • Draw triangles internally if ‘Enhance progressbars and scrollbars’ is checked. This solves two problems: cleartype artifacts in statusbars (vim airline for example); and triangle color for adjusted lightness of indistinguishable text.
  • New ConEmu.exe switch -Frame changes desired ‘Frame width’.
  • Many internal changes in font descriptors creation.

New in ConEmu Build 160416 Alpha (Apr 18, 2016)

  • gh-629: Once more ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’. It’s recommended now to run bash with -cur_console:p switch. Delete trailing 1 if you have {bash} task already.
  • -cur_console:p[N] - pty modes, N - bitmask, default is 1+4
  • 1 - XTermKeys, 2 - BrPaste, 4 - AppCursorKeys
  • Support underlined text attributes (fish autocompletion).
  • ConEmu.exe switches -run and -runlist are introduced to take the place of -cmd and -cmdlist.
  • Actually, -cmd and -cmdlist are supported for compatibility reasons, but -run... switches are more convenient to avoid confusion with cmd.exe.
  • As before, both /switch and -switch notations are supported.
  • Also, ConEmu internals were changed to -switch notation.
  • gh-641: Correct posting 0x7F (which is on xterm) to console. It was posted with LEFT_CTRL_PRESSED in dwControlKeyState. We are posting , but not a -.

New in ConEmu Build 160413 Alpha (Apr 14, 2016)

  • Task for ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’ was not created properly in 32-bit ConEmu on 64-bit Win10. Also, it’s named now just a {Bash::bash}.
  • New StatusBar columns: ‘Terminal modes’ and ‘RealConsole modes’ (generally for troubleshooting).
  • ‘Terminal modes’ shows keyboard modes and some flags: Windows, Xterm, App cursor keys, Bracketed paste, Cygwin, msys1, msys2 or clinK. E.g. XC means Xterm keyboard mode and Cygwin active console application.
  • ‘RealConsole modes’ shows current values of GetConsoleMode for ConIn and ConOut.
  • GuiMacro: TermMode([,]). Ref gh-629: To ‘fix’ arrow keys in vim in bash on Ubuntu on Windows one may set hotkey for macro TermMode(2) and switch keyboard mode manually when vim (linux process) is started and exited.
  • TermMode([,])
  • - changes active terminal modes
  • Mode==0: Keyboard emulation (Xterm/Windows)
  • Mode==1: Bracketed paste
  • Mode==2: Application cursor keys (DECCKM)
  • Action==0: Disable mode
  • Action==1: Enable mode
  • Action==2: Switch mode (default)
  • Suppress error message ‘Can’t open console data file mapping. ErrCode=0x00000002’ when started smth from Far and close ConEmu.
  • Terminal modes and performance counters were not shown properly on first open of ‘Info’ settings page.

New in ConEmu Build 160411 Alpha (Apr 13, 2016)

  • gh-629: Support xterm keyboard emulation for ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’. conhost does not do keypressed translation, if they were posted directly to console input. That’s why switch -cur_console:p1 must be used to turn on internal xterm emulation in ConEmu. So, the task {Bash-on-Ubuntu} would be:
  • %windir%\system32\bash.exe -cur_console:p1
  • New default task {Bash::Bash on Ubuntu} for Windows 10 (if the feature is turned on in Windows).
  • gh-637, gh-626: Access vialation on entering plugin ‘ConEmu Background’.
  • Environment variables: ConEmuArgs and ConEmuArgs2.
  • ConEmuArgs now contains only ConEmu.exe’s ‘switches’ (before -cmd or -cmdlist).
  • New variable ConEmuArgs2 contains the command only: -cmd ... or -cmdlist ....
  • Reuse ConEmuArgs when starting new ConEmu instance from cmd autorun.
  • gh-614, gh-616: Handle commas as decimal separators in the in-console progress detection. This fixes curl -# -O looping between 0 and 9%.
  • Do not apply the icon from {Task} if option ‘Show overlay icon’ is on, to avoid two similar icons, one over another.

New in ConEmu Build 160403a Alpha (Apr 5, 2016)

  • gh-620: ConEmu shows assertion when terminating SSH session in stermc.
  • gh-624: Defaults on Settings\Integration were lost after reactivating page.

New in ConEmu Build 160403 Alpha (Apr 4, 2016)

  • ComSpec setting page moved under DefTerm.
  • Avoid attempt to hook DefTerm from multiple processes in Aggressive mode.
  • Improve logging of DefTerm internals.
  • gh-604: Some improvements on cmd automatic attach. The method may be registered on the ‘ComSpec’ settings page. However, it’s not a recommended option, because ConEmu has very slight control over it, and even the logic ‘when we need to attach or not’ is fuzzy.
  • gh-604: Registration buttons were not processed properly on ConSpec settings page.
  • Corrections in -new_console switch trimming procedure.
  • The space was not trimmed in /C "C:\Temp\run.cmd -cur_console:o".
  • Unexpected assertion removed in /C "C:\Temp\run_pause.cmd "-cur_console:o""
  • Don’t run the command started by Shift-Enter from Far Manager via ConEmuC.exe. If one needs the command to be started in new ConEmu tab, than install the Macro: ConEmu/Far3_lua/ConEmu.ShiftEnter.lua.
  • Don’t bypass MouseMove events to Far Menus when selection modifiers are pressed.
  • gh-621: Try to mimic standard Windows Alt+Numbers behavior.

New in ConEmu Build 160329 Alpha (Mar 30, 2016)

  • Redesign ‘Keys & Macro’ settings page. Let Alt+F put focus into the ‘Filter’ field.
  • Hotkey Ctrl+Alt+Break was not processed properly.
  • LogFile was not created when ‘Internal LogFiles’ checkbox was on.
  • Simplify switching between Tasks on the ‘Tasks’ settings page (Up/Down keys if checkbox/button has focus).
  • gh-404, gh-322: Fix crash in the integrated applications after ConEmu update (DefTerm). The effect will be noticed on the next update.

New in ConEmu Build 160328 Alpha (Mar 30, 2016)

  • New default hotkeys for process termination:
  • Win+Alt+Break - Terminate all but shell processes in the current console;
  • Ctrl+Alt+Break - Terminate active process in the current console.
  • gh-605: Fix regressions on ‘App distinct’ settings page (EOL).
  • gh-294: Add ‘Filter’ field to ‘Keys and Macro’ settings page.
  • gh-318: With ES_NUMBER user can’t enter negative value (X/Y).
  • gh-318: Get rid of gap in Quake mode when frame width is less than 3 pix.
  • gh-165: Allow to drag Quake consoles between monitors.
  • Show Ctrl+Break but Pause in the hotkeys list.
  • l10n. Update resources
  • gh-304: Use full monitor working area for maximized/fullscreen Quake mode.

New in ConEmu Build 160327 Alpha (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Add palette change logging. Ref: gh-599, searching for bottle neck
  • gh-593: Background color index was cropped to 8-color palette after \e[9999;1H.
  • gh-587: Fix text selection when cursor passes the selection anchor (downright).
  • Update chinese translation.
  • Improve double-click (word) selection. For example, select daily by double-click inside brackets of ConEmu [daily]>.
  • ANSI: Sequence ESC [ 1 4 t reports terminal window size in pixels as ESC [ 4 ; height ; width t.
  • gh-605: Fix regressions on ‘App distinct’ settings page.
  • Log extended information during console shutdown. Ref: gh-604: Last conemu versions often can’t attach to started console

New in ConEmu Build 160313 Alpha (Mar 14, 2016)

  • On WinXP/Vista the icon in the TitleBar was unexpectedly changed to active tab icon.
  • Intelligent selection: RClick over selected region will Paste selected text, bypassing Windows’ clipboard, and Reset selection region.
  • Fix garbage displayed in VCon during console startup on WinXP.
  • gh-571: ConEmu -demote ... starts process for the wrong user.
  • Log current SessionID, improve Desktop and Title representation.

New in ConEmu Build 160310 Alpha (Mar 11, 2016)

  • TaskBar icon fixes (Overlay icon on any OS, update icon on Restart console).
  • Option ‘Show overlay icon (Win7 and higher)’ now works on any system, and need to be renamed. So, if TaskBar uses small icons, ConEmu shows icon from active console via WM_GETICON.
  • Icon was not updated on restart console with another icon.
  • Updates on Intelligent selection.
  • Double and Triple clicks selection do not require modifiers.
  • Click outside selection region - would reset active selection.
  • Do Internal Copy & Paste if LBtn is still down and RBtn is clicked.
  • Avoid blinking on double/triple clicks.
  • Selection: In some cases Shift+DblClick slipped to console.
  • gh-328: Improve double-click word selection logic.
  • Don’t select space after word.
  • Don’t select pseudographics before/after alphabeticals.
  • Trim trailing punctuations.
  • Trim leading punctuations except dots (e.g. .bashrc).
  • Fix wrong quotation rules on Settings/Environment. Was not working properly:

New in ConEmu Build 160308 Alpha (Mar 9, 2016)

  • Option ‘Retard inactive panes’ was ignored in some cases.
  • Trailing dot was not trimmed after md-style hyperlink.
  • gh-420: Do not enable by default option ‘Process start’.
  • Debugging purposes: ConEmuC.exe -struct %ConEmuPID%.
  • In prompt, Shift+Home/End selects command text first, second press expands selection to line start/end.
  • If selection was started from keyboard, than Del/Shift-Del/Backspace removes selected text. ConEmu tries to ‘map’ single Del/BS to series of keypresses to remove whole selected block. Only one-line selections are processed. Shift-Del do copying to clipboard before erasion.
  • Allow persistent mouse selection. Selection will reset on Paste or Typing.
  • When selection crosses anchor, behave same way if selection was started in that direction.
  • ANSI: Implement ESC ] 9 ; 12 ST to store end of prompt message.
  • l10n: Update chinese translation.

New in ConEmu Build 160301 Alpha (Mar 2, 2016)

  • gh-562: Environment was not applied to elevated consoles.
  • Window icon was changed by mistake when starting task with defined icon. This must happen only for startup task.
  • StatusBar was not updated after root process termination. Especially for consoles started with -new_console:c0 or -new_console:c1.
  • gh-561: Tab macro %d was not trimmed to ‘Max tab width’.
  • For TaskBar with small icons show current console icon instead of ConEmu default (option ‘Admin shield’).
  • GuiMacro: GetInfo("Root") XML-result changes.
  • State: Empty, NotStarted, Running, Exited. PID and ExitCode: unsigned integers. UpTime: milliseconds. Examples below.
  • If there are not consoles in ConEmu.
  • If console initialization is in progress (ping localhost -t for example).
  • If root process was started and is running. Note, 259 in ExitCode is STILL_ACTIVE constant.
  • If root process was finished (terminated by Ctrl+C as example).
  • Another example for cmd.exe normal exit.

New in ConEmu Build 160228 Preview (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Fix crash when mouse wheel was scrolled over search edit box.
  • Warning fixes (from Michael Lukashov).
  • Intelligent selection mode was not working in Far userscreen (Panels turned off).
  • gh-560: Fix true-color scrolling issues in Far 3.0.4525.
  • Alt+Numbers mode improvements.
  • Hotkey (unassigned): Start Alt+Number mode to enter unicode symbol by its hex codebase.
  • Allow mode start by GuiMacro: AltNumber([Base]).
  • Base==0: Start Alt+Numbers in ANSI decimal mode (‘ANSI’ actually means UNICODE code points 32..255)
  • Base==10: Start Alt+Numbers in OEM decimal mode
  • Base==16: Start Alt+Numbers in hexadecimal mode
  • Alt+Numbers: If mode was started by Alt+Key (user-defined), do paste on Alt release.
  • Alt+Numbers: Show collected codebase and hints about mode in the StatusBar.
  • KeyEvents v4.3: Unicode characters were not printed correctly.

New in ConEmu Build 160222 Alpha (Feb 24, 2016)

  • gh-555: Aliases support was broken (771ab79 regression).
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#13: ConEmu-Inside position was not updated in some cases.
  • Understandable error message if bad -loadcfgfile was specified.
  • Don’t erase default MSZ setting value, if one not found in xml.
  • Let -new_console:c1 consoles stay open silently even on Esc/Enter.
  • When all processes in console are finished:
  • ConEmu does not close the console automatically;
  • Confirmation message is not written to console;
  • All keypresses are ignored.
  • So, user may either close console via ConEmu interface (kill hotkeys or close menu items), or parent process (when ConEmu is working in the ‘Inside’ mode) may close the console via GuiMacro Close(0,1).

New in ConEmu Build 160219 Alpha (Feb 20, 2016)

  • Task may be executed in the running console with ConEmuC -c {TaskName}.
  • Actually, first command of the named task is executed, and rest of command line is appended as arguments. For example, you may start Far editor in the current console by executing in the prompt:
  • ConEmuC -c {Far} /e text.txt
  • Support tasks nesting.
  • Simple nesting is allowed, so one may create their own task, which starts {cmd}, {powershell} and {VS 14.0 x86 tools prompt}, even in splits or with extra arguments. For example:
  • {cmd} & echo Extra args
  • {powershell} -new_console:sV
  • New predefined environment variables: ConEmuTask and ConEmuPalette.
  • TaskBar JumpList icons fix.
  • Far Macro: ConEmu.Editor.lua was broken (Far3 latest builds).
  • Far Tabs were not updated in ConEmu after plugin call Plugin.SyncCall(ConEmu,100).

New in ConEmu Build 160218 Alpha (Feb 19, 2016)

  • GuiMacro. New function Write("Text") writes “Text” to console output (dangerous).
  • Use it at you own risk! Calling this function may cause unexpected behavior of running console application! That is because function changes console contents and cursor position directly, bypassing detouring standard ConIn/ConOut processing queue.
  • In most cases safe functions Paste, Print and Keys are preferable!
  • However, with Write you may implement some interesting features, like printing sort of ‘hints’ in shell prompt:
  • Write “\e7\e[90mEcho "Hello world!"\e[m\e8”
  • Ref: Maximus5/conemu-inside#3
  • gh-550, gh-372, gh-234: Unassigned by default hotkey ‘Reset terminal’ (dangerous).
  • I’m still sure that this operation is harmful and dangerous: https://conemu.github.io/en/ClearScreen.html. But since GuiMacro Write exists, anyone may create a macro for Write("\ec"), which the hotkey actualy executes.
  • TabMenu item ‘Edit -> Reset terminal’ is available too.
  • BTW, with Write macro anyone may push to console several colored lines, using ANSI sequences, to ‘mark’ some point in real-time logs (tail -f).
  • Write “\n\n\e[91m========== ‘\e]9;8;"time"\e\’ ==========\e[m\n\n”
  • Bring here: Just move window to the upper-left corner of active monitor.
  • ANSI: Let ESC ] 9 ; 8 ; "*env*" ST supports date and time.

New in ConEmu Build 160217 Alpha (Feb 18, 2016)

  • gh-541: Chinese translation (from @ulin).
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#4: Don’t warn ConEmu's parent window was terminated abnormally if we have no VCon.
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#4: Don’t show ‘Can’t create new virtual console’ error if parent was killed during initialization.
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#12: Query GuiMacro result via callback function. ConEmuCD.dll and ConEmuCD64.dll now export GuiMacro function. https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/commit/ffd3774eb037fb73828ff969464ef57a97dda1a4
  • Don’t install hooks in ConEmuC.exe.
  • ConEmuC internal -echo able to expand environment variables by -x subswitch. Example: ConEmuC -echo -x “Version: %ConEmuBuild%”
  • Maximus5/conemu-inside#3: Write user-defined text to console on startup.
  • Commands echo and type are processed internally by ConEmuC now. For example, it’s possible to add into the Settings/Environment.
  • echo -x “Welcome to ConEmu %ConEmuBuild% terminal^nPress Win-Alt-P to show Settings dialog”
  • Alternatively, you may add echo or type before the command itself, when you create new console, or in the Task definition. Example.
  • type -utf8 “%ConEmuDir%\Hello.txt” & cmd /k %ConEmuBaseDir%\CmdInit.cmd”
  • Implement -Args to show how ConEmu’s command line parser works.
  • Example: ConEmuC -args “Test1 & ^ “” Test2” “Test “” 3”
  • Two double-quotes are replaced with one double-quotes in NextArg.
  • So, the command:
  • ConEmuC -args “Test1 & ^ “” Test2” “Test “” 3”
  • must produce following output:
  • 1: Test1 & ^ " Test2 2: Test " 3
  • Changes in ConEmuC -echo feature.
  • Arguments are processed one-by-one, strings with special characters must be framed with double-quotes, two sequential double-quotes are replaces with one double quotes, multiple spaces between arguments are treated as single space.
  • $ ConEmuC -echo "A1 "" A2" "A3" A4"
  • A1 " A2 A3 A4
  • $ ConEmuC -echo "Line1^nLine2"
  • Line1
  • Line2
  • $ ConEmuC -echo -r "Line1^nLine2"
  • Line1^nLine2
  • Settings/Environment has priority over console command line.
  • Commands echo, type, set and others, defined in on the ‘Environment’ settings page, are executed before commands, defined in the Task or console command line.
  • So, if ‘Environment’ has following line
  • echo -x “Welcome to the ConEmu %ConEmuBuild% terminal”
  • And {cmd} Task is defined like following
  • echo “Initializing {cmd} Task…” & cmd /k “%ConEmuBaseDir%\CmdInit.cmd”
  • Than you’ll see in the terminal
  • Welcome to the ConEmu 160217 terminal Initializing {cmd} Task…
  • Log system date on -log start and date change.
  • Show (StatusBar) and log PID of started console server.
  • GuiMacro: WindowMode("HERE") moves ConEmu to monitor with mouse cursor.
  • Add hotkey for ‘Move ConEmu window to the monitor with mouse cursor (Bring here)’.
  • gh-240: Create a workaround for ‘Maximum real console size was reached’.
  • Looks like MS-Bug in conhost leads to abnormally large font set in real console, if tab was started As Admin in Windows 10 and Win-L pressed.

New in ConEmu Build 160211 Preview (Feb 12, 2016)

  • Initial steps for localization. More information in docs.
  • gh-539, gh-535: Option ‘Default task for new console’ was ignored (d93b5d9 regression).
  • gh-540: In some cases ‘Enhance preudographics’ was skipped.
  • Avoid spare RealConsole resize on HideCaption changes.
  • Fix broken Far’s Editor/Viewer close from TabMenu (7631ffd regression).

New in ConEmu Build 160207 Preview (Feb 8, 2016)

  • Alt+HexNumbers: Dump collected codebase to console on ‘invalid’ input or GrayPlus.
  • gh-534: Fix wrong background drawing in Far (TrueColor).
  • gh-532: ‘Apply’ button failed to return ‘Normal’ mode in ‘Quake’ style.
  • gh-78: Rename to (modifier for ‘Highlight and goto’ and some others). Purpose of this option - process when no modifier (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, ...) is pressed.
  • gh-489: Fix TaskBar jump-list problems.
  • Default Tasks for SDK::VS * were not created by ConEmu64.exe.
  • Wrong icon was set for tasks SDK::VS * in jump-list.
  • Default extension (xml for example) was not appended if user fails to print it in the ‘Export settings’ dialog.
  • Warning fixes (from Michael Lukashov).

New in ConEmu Build 160204 Preview (Feb 5, 2016)

  • Support Alt-+-HexNumber input internally, including surrogate pair generation. ConEmu is able to convert entered codepoints to surrogate pairs, so you may enter uncommon symbols outside from BMP. Examples below.
  • Double-struck ‘𝔸’: press Alt-+-1D538.
  • Sushi emoticon ‘🍣’: press Alt-+-1F363
  • More information
  • Screen was not updated if shell (cmd for example) was activated back from closed Far Manager, if close has been done by cross-click and ‘Safe Far Close’ macro.
  • gh-524: Deal with entangled window list returned by Far API.

New in ConEmu Build 160124 Alpha (Jan 25, 2016)

  • gh#509: Fix crash when checking ‘Explicit executable’.
  • Use bare {Far} task name for first Far.exe found in our folder. To simplify portable and testing installations, if Far Manager is copied into our program folder, don’t change its task name (don’t add version/bitness suffixes).
  • gh#507: Get rid of MsgBox on attach errors, print info to Console instead.
  • gh#514: Fix broken pseudographics representation if ‘Alternative font’ was off.
  • Prefer bash.exe over sh.exe when creating default tasks.
  • gd#516: Support ‘Application Cursor Keys (DECCKM)’.
  • Update terminals module to v0.7.4
  • Let characters 0x1F300..0x1F5FF be double-width.
  • gh#517: Radio-buttons Maximized and Fullscreen were not working (Apply is required though)

New in ConEmu Build 160111 Alpha (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Fix bad XML format for GuiMacro GetInfo Root.
  • gh#491: Example Far Macro ConEmu.CtrlShiftT.lua had wrong hotkey.
  • Add ‘Anti-aliasing’ option for alternative font.
  • Far Manager was not resized after splitting with Ctrl-Shift-O/E. Implement helper ForceFarResize and utilize it in both sync and async modes.
  • gh#502, gh#446, gh#447: The algorithm of text drawing has changed significantly.
  • Prevent double execution of script specified in “AutoRun” cmd’s registry key. For example, when “cmd /k CmdInit.cmd” was started (default for {cmd} task) triggering ver command caused execution of test.cmd again.
  • [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
  • "AutoRun"="test.cmd"
  • gh#494: Fix clink double initialization.
  • connector#3: Let Left/Right/Up/Down/Home/End post sequences ESC[X.
  • connector#8: Fix top output lines.
  • Update terminals module to v0.7.3.
  • Updating progress was not changed during downloading (10% till 99%).
  • gh#297: Fix keyboard delay (Windows 7).
  • gh#471: Far plugin ‘ConEmu Panel Views’ was broken (da926ba regression).

New in ConEmu Build 151224 Alpha (Dec 29, 2015)

  • All 64-bit binaries are built with VS14. 32-bit binaries are still built with VS9 (WinSDK7) to be compatible with old systems.
  • gh#486: Use https for github links.
  • gh#488: Full paths were shown in Far’s editor/viewer tabs (6ce49af regression).
  • GuiMacro: Return xml instead of json for GetInfo Root.
  • GuiMacro: In-process GuiMacro execution improvements.

New in ConEmu Build 151222 Alpha (Dec 29, 2015)

  • gh#465: Treat Ctrl-Z as ‘EndOfStream’ in ReadConsole (Go input streams). To use, on new line press Ctrl-Z and Enter. Option (Features page) disabled by default.
  • gh#469: TabBar/ToolBar is too large.
  • gh#473: Support Ctrl+LClick on paths surrounded by brackets.
  • connector/gh#4: AltGr+Char was not working with cygwin/msys connector.
  • gh#470: Double click word selection was broken.
  • conemu-inside/gh#3: New switch -new_console:c0. It suppress writing to console confirmation messages like “Press Enter or Esc to close console…”, but let server to wait for Enter or Esc nonetheless.
  • ConEmu.Core - Nuget package for Nuget.org, for referencing the stuff from Visual Studio projects. Unlike Choco’s, this one has to carry all of the payload files inside and not on an URL. The nuget with conemu WinForms control references this nuget, so just adding a nuget to your project sets it up for using the conemu control out of the box.
  • Internal. Fix package name
  • API: ConEmuCD exports function ConsoleMain3 to enable ‘in-process’ GuiMacro calls.

New in ConEmu Build 151217 Alpha (Dec 18, 2015)

  • AnsiLog was not written properly in some cases.
  • Reuse HandleKeeper to determine console handle properties properly
  • ANSI coloring is supported while redirecting text to CON from batches. Example for cmd prompt: call cecho "Redirected output" > CON.
  • Output of msvcrt linked applications, like PING or TRACERT, may be logged (Settings\Features\Log console output).
  • gh#461: Fix AeroPeek VCon offset when frame is non-resizable.
  • gh#210: Minimizing other windows causes ConEmu to be restored (Quake).
  • First try to draw non-spacings/combinings/surrogates/double-width in ‘proper’ size. For example, combining accents/umlauts must be shown over preceding letter, CJK double-width characters must use two cells to avoid overlapping. But that raise some other problems if console application don’t care about this. For example: Far Manager frames may look corrupted after CJK file names.
  • Don’t try to pop up console menu by Shift+RClick while LBtn selection is present.
  • Make IDM_CLOSE (Tab/Console menu item) behavior more conistent.
  • If menu’s opened by RClick on console or by hotkey: do ‘Close console’.
  • If menu’s opened by TabBar’s RClick and it’s a group with several tabs: do ‘Close tab group’.
  • Otherwise: do ‘Close tab’.
  • ConEmu Inside: Terminate our process (ConEmu.exe) if parent window was killed.
  • Don’t try to hide to TSA in Inside mode.
  • gh#467: Startup crash if startup task was renamed.
  • Arbitrary shells (not a Task) were not accepted in FastConfiguration dialog.
  • Let’s save integers as user-friendly 10-based numbers (new xml configs).
  • Allow AutoUpdates to ‘Stable’ builds.
  • GuiMacro: GetInfo(“Root”) returns information of current console root process (JSON).
  • If there’s no console at all - macro returns either empty string, or somthing like “FAILED:Specified ConEmu instance is not found”.
  • On errors you may receive {"Status":"Unknown"}.
  • Normally, JSON object is expected. Example below, // for comments.
  • GuiMacro: Avoid VConRequired error macro was received before RCon created.
  • GuiMacro: If ConEmuC -GuiMacro was started before ConEmu GUI finishes initialization, wait for ConEmu window appears or ConEmu.exe process terminates.
  • Option ‘Skip click on activation’ was not working on ‘touch’.
  • gh#310: Chars entered by Alt+Numpad were not working.
  • Warning fixes (from Michael Lukashov).

New in ConEmu Build 150813f Preview (Dec 16, 2015)

  • gh#467: Startup crash if startup task was renamed.
  • Arbitrary shells (not a Task) were not accepted in FastConfiguration dialog.

New in ConEmu Build 150813e Preview (Dec 16, 2015)

  • gh#461: Fix AeroPeek VCon offset when frame is non-resizable.
  • gh#210: Minimizing other windows causes ConEmu to be restored (Quake).
  • Don’t try to pop up console menu by Shift+RClick while LBtn selection is present.
  • Bug and warning fixes (from Michael Lukashov).

New in ConEmu Build 151210 Alpha (Dec 14, 2015)

  • Add batch to build all binaries
  • Trim too long console titles in ‘Close confirmation’ dialog.
  • Backscroll buffer was not restored after exiting man, vim (608fe12 regression).
  • Show internal AppID in the About dialog, log AppID source. This ID is used for Win7+ TaskBar (pinned apps).
  • In some cases Win7+ pinned TaskBar icon was not reused.
  • gh#461: Fix AeroPeek VCon offset when using captionless mode.

New in ConEmu Build 151208 Alpha (Dec 9, 2015)

  • gh#459: Characters disappear after readline Ctrl+R, …, Enter.
  • ConEmu Inside: Fix detection of ‘ConEmu has focus’.
  • ConEmu Inside: Don’t resize VCon or RCon if parent is minimized.
  • ConEmu Inside: Show TaskBar progress on parent window.
  • ConEmu Inside: Show flashing on parent window.
  • Updater. Fight against wininet cache before downloading.
  • In some cases ConEmu tried to set abnormally large console size.
  • GuiMacro: GetInfo("ActivePID") returns PID of active console process or 0.

New in ConEmu Build 151207 Alpha (Dec 8, 2015)

  • gh#438: No newlines in log files after prompts (cygwin/msys). Cygwin/msys shells do not write LF to screen unless they were started from ConEmu’s cygwin/msys connector. Therefore we have to do some magic to ‘detect’ line feeds…
  • Update terminals module to v0.7
  • In some cases PID of terminal-connector was not shown in the StatusBar.
  • Xterm’s alternative screen was not cleared on activating.
  • gh#351: Allow changing URL for retrieving version location on Settings/Update.
  • gh#351: Use https://conemu.github.io/version.ini by default.
  • Changes in processing of default hotkey Win+X:
  • It runs whole task contents, but not only first ‘tab’ from task;
  • If no one task was marked as ‘Default shell’, run default COMSPEC with arguments ` /k “%ConEmuBaseDir%\CmdInit.cmd”`.

New in ConEmu Build 151205 Alpha (Dec 6, 2015)

  • Show cygwin/msys/clink flags on Settings/Info.
  • Post Fxx keys ncurses-friendly in the xterm mode emulation.
  • gh#442: In text selection pressing Ctrl+Shift+Arrow increases selection faster. Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right jumps by words if possible, or by 10 chars. Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down jumps by screen halfs.
  • gh#455: Redirected output from batch files to CON device was not working.
  • gh#438: No newlines in log files after prompts.
  • Do logging of Far prompt (only screen copy) if ‘Log console output’ is ON.
  • Update cygwin/msys connector to v0.6.

New in ConEmu Build 151202 Alpha (Dec 3, 2015)

  • When ConEmu was started as a child window (InsideParent) it behaves as it has no focus.
  • Ensure that all child windows are closed properly on termination (InsideParent).
  • Option ‘Activate split/pane on mouse hover’ was not working in InsideParent mode.
  • Execution of ‘-GuiMacro:PID’ was failed if ConEmu.exe was in InsideParent.
  • Don’t allow to execute ‘-GuiMacro:…’ on wrong instance.
  • Increase debugger backscroll even if it was started in ConEmu tab.
  • XTerm keys fixup (F1..F4, BackSpace, Alt+Char).
  • Disable ‘Ctrl+Backspace - delete word leftward to the text cursor’ in cygwin/msys connector. Ctrl+BS is posted as “\x1F” and it may be configured in the .inputrc as following:

New in ConEmu Build 151129 Alpha (Nov 30, 2015)

  • ANSI: Implement (xterm) codes to save ESC 7 and restore ESC 8 cursor position.
  • ANSI: Sequences ESC ] ... ESC \ were not processed properly in some cases.
  • cygwin/msys connector v0.4.
  • Warning fixes

New in ConEmu Build 151126 Alpha (Nov 28, 2015)

  • First try to create cygwin/msys terminal connector.
  • JumpList icon was not created properly for Task in some cases. If /icon switch was not specified for Task parameters, and first line of Task commands started with specials * or >, JumpList icon was not created properly.
  • gh#431: Fix crash in EmergencyShow (Win10, closing ConEmu).
  • Show in the StatusBar cygwin/msys connector’s PID as AltServer.
  • Pass UTF-8 encoded strings to debugger (ANSI debug logging).
  • ANSI: Implement ESC [ 3 J: dispose all backscroll lines (from xterm).
  • ANSI: Implement ESC ] 9 ; 10 ST - Request xterm keyboard emulation.
  • Testing purposes: Options -a and -s in ConEmuC -type. -a writes text to console using MBCS functions. -s writes text to console byte-by-byte (streaming). Example: ConEmuC -t -a -s UTF-8-broken.txt.
  • Improve UTF-8 support. In some cases, console output was broken.
  • Internal. Reset m_Term on tab restart
  • ANSI: Support xterm bracketed paste mode. Console application should write \e[?2004h to enable and \e[?2004l to disable bracketed paste mode. When mode is enabled, ConEmu sends pasted text to console input buffer framed into \s[200~ … \e[201~.
  • ANSI: Long OSC sequences written splitted by writes were processed improperly.
  • Don’t treat cygwin/msys connector as ‘Incomplete operation’.
  • Warnings fixes

New in ConEmu Build 151122 Alpha (Nov 23, 2015)

  • Minhook related: Try to change our imports to ease use of trampolines.
  • Append optional switches to single-command tasks. For example, there is default task {cmd} which has single command: cmd /k "%ConEmuBaseDir%\CmdInit.cmd". Now you may to run {cmd} /git from NewConsole dialog or via -cmd switch of ConEmu.exe. So, the result will be: cmd /k "%ConEmuBaseDir%\CmdInit.cmd" /git.
  • ConEmu here: Suggest to start {cmd} task instead of bare cmd by default.
  • So the default command for ‘ConEmu Here’ will be {cmd} -cur_console:n.
  • Default command for ‘ConEmu Inside will be {powershell} -cur_console:n.
  • DefTerm. Workaround for some weird command lines (CodeBlocks). For example, in CodeBlocks: C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks/cb_console_runner.exe "C:\sources\app.exe" MSDN recommends to quotate paths containing spaces and specials, but CB ignores this

New in ConEmu Build 151119 Alpha (Nov 20, 2015)

  • gh#412: Failed to restore window position on secondary monitor (d3da351 regression).
  • Far Manager plugins ‘ConEmu Background’ and ‘ConEmu Underlines’ were not working on Windows 7.
  • First user palette was multiplied on sequental TabMenu calls ‘View (palettes)’.
  • On ‘Debug active process…’ always show ‘New console’ dialog. So user may run debugger in a split or even change debugger comand line.
  • For debugger NewConsole dialog suggest ‘30%’ for split and don’t autoselect command.
  • GuiMacro: Debug() allows to create debugger console or memory dumps.
  • Allow to set hotkeys for debugging menu items:
  • Debug active process (default is Win+Shift+D);
  • Active process memory dump;
  • Active process tree memory dump.
  • Debugger. Switch /AUTOMINI will create sequential mini-dumps:
  • So, it may be useful for creating ‘mini snapshots’ of running application with specified time intervals. After /AUTOMINI switch user may specify interval. Milliseconds: /AUTOMINI 500 or /AUTOMINI 500ms; seconds: /AUTOMINI 5s; and minutes: /AUTOMINI 1m.
  • Create sequental dumps of 64bit PID=1234 with 500ms interval: ConEmuC64.exe /DEBUGPID=1234 /AUTOMINI 500
  • Note. Press Win+Shift+D (default hotkey) to open NewConsole dialog with prefilled command to start debugger on the active process in the active console.

New in ConEmu Build 151115 Alpha (Nov 16, 2015)

  • gh#415: GetLastError returned 6 after WriteFile even on success.
  • Shift+Debug active process allows to run debugger in a split. If menu item Debug active process is called with Shift key pressed, NewConsole dialog is opened (allowing to run debugger in a split).
  • ConEmuC Debugger. Don’t suggest to create MiniDump on MS_VC_THREADNAME_EXCEPTION.
  • In some cases ConEmuC64 was started as server for 32-bit root process.
  • gh#94: Gray window on PuTTY when connected via local proxy command.
  • Correct condition for attaching console app started from ChildGui (from gh#94).
  • gh#419: Cygwin-friendly paths were pasted into Clink’s prompt.
  • Option ‘Suppress bells’ added to ‘Features’ settings page. It suppresses annoying bells produced by echoing char(7), Beep and MessageBeep functions. ‘Inject ConEmuHk’ is required. Instead, ConEmu window (Frame/Title and TaskBar button) will flash one time if ‘Disable all flashing’ is not checked.
  • Let palettes list (TabMenu) will not be too long. There are 25 predefined palettes now, and if user creates user-defined palettes, the menu had unhandy scrolling.
  • Add ‘ConEmu Underlines’ and ‘ConEmu Background’ items to Far’s F11 menu (panels, editor, viewer).
  • Detection of ‘Active process’ is almost rewritten:
  • Since now, ‘Active process’ is the last process started in console (same as before);
  • But process used to select AppDistinct options must be interactive. For example, you have defined AppDistinct settings, with palette for powershell.exe and palette for bash.exe and git-bash.exe. Than, palette will not be changed anymore when you just run git status from powershell’s prompt, it will be changed if only bash.exe is started directly from powershell’s prompt. That was impelemented to suppress colors flashing during non-interactive command.
  • StatusBar column ‘Active process’ shows ‘Interactive’ and ‘Plugin is loaded’:
  • Asterisk * after process name: process is reading keyboard input.
  • Sharp # after process name: ConEmu plugin is loaded in Far Manager.

New in ConEmu Build 151109 Alpha (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Move checkbox Activate split/pane on mouse hover to the Controls settings page.
  • Write process list changes and active process name to log (ConEmu -log).
  • Write CtrlC/CtrlBreak and other console events to log (ConEmu -log).
  • Don’t restart PC without confirmation after CUP ALL (chocolatey update). https://groups.google.com/d/topic/chocolatey/UvVVLpoBnCg/discussion
  • Improve ConEmuC debugger output.
  • A lot of ANSI fixes generally for plink fork.
  • ANSI. Primary buffer was not restored properly if there was no backscroll.
  • ANSI. Support tmux status line.
  • ANSI. Fix some scrolling issues.
  • ANSI. Sequence ESC [ *a* ; *b* r addresses working area coordinates. ANSI aware applications don’t know about backscroll (upper invisible area) buffer, they intend to work within ‘working area’ instead.
  • ANSI. New sequences are supported.

New in ConEmu Build 151101 Alpha (Nov 5, 2015)

  • gh#401: Fix: Ctrl+~ doesn’t work on build 151029.
  • gh#399: Use mouse for ConEmu’s selection instead of passing to cygwin’s vim.
  • gh#398: Fix: Taskbar previews don’t match tabs order.
  • Fix: Win7 taskbar aero peeks appeared in wrong position if pad size was not null.

New in ConEmu Build 151025 Alpha (Oct 26, 2015)

  • gh#373: Don’t decrease window height with AutoTabs (show/hide/show/hide/…)
  • gh#388 (gh#295?): Don’t change buffer height for cygwin/msys versions of vim.
  • gh#359, gh#84: Fix vim color issues on scrolling.
  • Don’t change buffer height when starting vim with --help or --version.
  • Vim terminal mode was not finished properly on exit.
  • ANSI \e[K has not cleared rightmost cell.
  • Checkbox ‘Desktop mode’ was removed from settings.
  • gh#336: Don’t poll Far 2.x current directories while Editor/Viewer is active.
  • gh#17: Send WM_ENTERSIZEMOVE/WM_EXITSIZEMOVE to ChildGui during resize.

New in ConEmu Build 150913 Alpha (Sep 15, 2015)

  • ConEmuLn. Add separate settings for Editor and Viewer underline colors.
  • gh#321: Temp fix for Vim display issues.
  • gh#297: Show option ‘Delay between consoles initialization’ on the ‘Startup’ page.
  • Internal bugfixes from Michael Lukashov.

New in ConEmu Build 150816 Alpha (Aug 17, 2015)

  • Support DefTerm for CodeBlocks. User have to add codeblocks.exe|gdb.exe to hooked executables.
  • Add option ‘Restore to active monitor’ to the ‘Size & Pos’ settings page. It moves window to active monitor from inactive by Min/Restore hotkey even if window is visible. Option is implied by -quake ConEmu.exe switch.

New in ConEmu Build 150707 Alpha (Jul 13, 2015)

  • This build changes the download procedure used within automatic updates. ConEmu.exe (GUI) do not call WinInet functions anymore, instead it calls the downloader tool (ConEmuC.exe is an only option at the moment). This will eliminate accidental crashes of GUI after resume from sleep.
  • The downloader itself has new options.
  • If user omit dst file name - try to get it from Url.
  • If "-" was specified as dst file name or output is redirected - just write contents to stdout.
  • New switch ‘-agent ’ was implemented.

New in ConEmu Build 150705 Preview (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Script ConEmu/GitShowBranch.cmd was improved.
  • Highlight & goto was broken at least for powershell scripts (c8c386a regression). Only file name (path) was highlighted without following line number.
  • Highlight & goto detector was failed if mouse was before first backslash of the path.
  • gh#205: TabBar was not shown on startup in some monitor configurations (bacc66d regression).

New in ConEmu Build 150701 Preview (Jul 2, 2015)

  • Add optional '/Silent' switch to suppress environment exporting messages.
  • ConEmuC [/SILENT] /EXPORT[=CON|GUI|ALL] [Var1 [Var2 [...]]]
  • gh#193: Fix wrong condition: ‘Warn if MacType hookers are loaded’.
  • Omit ConEmuC export variables message in GitShowBranch.cmd.
  • gh#174: Let paste to all ‘grouped input’ consoles at once.
  • Show actual hotkey instead of default Ctrl+BackSpace in Settings.
  • Vert/Horz text cursor was displayed in wrong position especially on DBCS systems.
  • Ctrl+BackSpace feature was not working on DBCS systems.
  • Redirect chocolatey downloads to github.
  • gh#204: ConEmu hung on startup in some cases while initializing default tasks.

New in ConEmu Build 150629 Preview (Jun 30, 2015)

  • Attach (Win+G) was not succeeded if ConEmu has different bitness.
  • Grab palette from Win+G attached consoles (Vista+) and create new if matching one was not found. These palettes ‘#Attached:XX’ are not saved automatically, but will be when user presses ‘Save settings’ button in the settings dialog.
  • gh#193: Show hookers warning once per day.
  • Show real names for ‘Win+Number’ and ‘Win+Arrows’ on the Controls page.
  • Search for static text control in the Settings dialog was failed.
  • Issue 1977: Don't change RealConsole height on tabs auto-show/hide, resize ConEmu window height instead.
  • Add some urls to ConEmu.nuspec (chocolatey).
  • When tabs are auto shown icon was not loaded for the first tab.
  • Environment variables export was improved (some internal fixes).

New in ConEmu Build 150621 Preview (Jun 22, 2015)

  • Use recommended launcher for Git-For-Windows bash (default tasks).
  • Try to create default task for GitSDK bash.
  • Let Settings\Environment page use one line for one command. This will make concrete set commands with quotation marks. Following two commands are equal.
  • set "PATH=C:\Program Files\ConEmu;%PATH%"
  • set PATH=C:\Program Files\ConEmu;%PATH%
  • But you still have to use quotations to keep trailing spaces
  • set "VarName=This is my value "
  • Support empty lines and comments on the Settings\Environment page. You may comment lines with #, //, -- or REM .
  • gh187: Highlight and goto did not work when filename not finished by :[space] or :[number].
  • Improve default task names unification and sorting.
  • The arrow char was inserted into Far Manager prompt after selecting text with Alt+Mouse.
  • Fix xml search path for Git-For-Windows package. Correct one is /opt/share/conemu/ConEmu.xml while ConEmu.exe is placed in /opt/bin folder.
  • Error code was not shown properly if DefTerm inject fails.

New in ConEmu Build 150610 Alpha (Jun 11, 2015)

  • Simplify set usage in Settings\Environment.
  • gh#179: Fix broken environment inheritance (ca9e31a regression).
  • Ensure that set commands in the task/command line will override ConEmu's default environment (settings page).
  • GuiMacro: Make Task and Shell functions synchronous to be able to use Context function after it.
  • GuiMacro: Return more information about wrong macro.
  • GuiMacro: Easify calling functions with int arguments. "Sleep 500;" was not working.
  • GuiMacro: Sleep function have not returned "OK" on success.
  • Allow using -new_console and -cur_console switches to set DosKey aliases.
  • Support aliases set up on the ConEmu Settings/Environment page.
  • Note! These console aliases are processed by cmd.exe and far.exe only. If you need to set up aliases for other shells (PowerShell, bash, etc.) please refer to their manuals.
  • Defining aliases are similar to doskey.exe. Actually, you may define:
  • alias alias=doskey $*
  • After that you can use alias in the cmd.exe prompt started in ConEmu:
  • alias sudo=ConEmuC -c $* -new_console:an
  • That is just an example. It's more handy to add sudo definition into ConEmu Settings/Environment page. And when sudo is defined you may run from cmd.exe prompt, for example:
  • sudo diskpart
  • gh#176: Avoid creating two tabs while starting:
  • git-bash.exe --command=usr/bin/bash.exe -l -i
  • However, preferred way to start Git-For-Windows in ConEmu tab is:
  • git-cmd.exe --command=usr/bin/bash.exe -l -i
  • Update ConEmuPortable.ini with Environment information.

New in ConEmu Build 150608 Alpha (Jun 9, 2015)

  • Quake mode enabled by `-quake` command line switch was not shown in Fast Configuration dialog.
  • Suggest the task user specified by `ConEmu.exe -cmd {cmd}` in Fast Configuration dialog.
  • Don't set default task in Fast Configuration dialog, use exact `-cmd ...` command specified by user.
  • gh#151: Do (quake) animation after starting RealConsole creation.
  • Add `-here` switch description in the About dialog.
  • Ensure all default bash tasks names will be unique.
  • Always reset FARHOME env.var when creating default Far tasks.
  • Move checkboxes ‘Add ConEmu??? to PATH’ to separate page ‘Environment’.
  • gh#171, Issue 1655: Add option to skip ‘... brought ConEmu OnTop. Revert?’ confirmation.
  • gh#173: Attach of detached console ignored new ConEmu instance.
  • gh#173: Implement Unfasten of console tabs (ChildGui not yet). Tab menu item, hotkey and GuiMacro.
  • Implement ‘Settings\Environment’ page. User may define here multiple "set varname=varvalue" commands or set default console code page with "chcp utf-8", "chcp 866" and so on. Environment %variables% in 'varvalue' are allowed and would be expanded before do set. One line - one command (set or chcp).
  • Create folder "ConEmu\Scripts" by installer. May be useful for storing user scripts (bat-files and so on). It would/may be added to PATH in the Settings\Environment page.
  • Git-For-Windows: Search for xml in /share/conemu while ConEmu.exe is intended to be in /opt/bin.
  • Log and warn (debug assertion) long alternative buffer loading.
  • Many MINGW-build related fixes from @Alexpux.

New in ConEmu Build 150513 Preview (May 14, 2015)

  • Don't show [reg] or [xml] in Fast Configuration dialog because there is the storage location field.
  • gh#142: Win+Left/Right didn't snap window if it was maximized.
  • gh#139: If Quake was hidden when user presses Win key (Start menu), ConEmu was unexpectedly slided down after second Win press (after menu was hidden).
  • Garbage was shown sometimes while searching in Settings dialog.
  • gh#143: Add CygWin bash default tasks by checking registry (for new config).
  • RealConsole pause refactoring.
  • Execute RedrawWindow in the server process to avoid access violation.

New in ConEmu Build 150504 Preview (May 6, 2015)

  • Jump list command was built erroneously if there was ‘-FontDir ...’ or some other switch.
  • The field ‘Startup task’ was not filled in the ConEmu Fast Configuration dialog.
  • Fix ChocolateyAbout.cmd script, correct PATH suggestion and powershell command.
  • Check if Chocolatey is already installed and show the path (ChocolateyAbout.cmd).
  • gh#127: ConEmu did not stay minimized if a new console tab was opened in background.
  • gh#106: ChildGui turned black after ConEmu was restored.

New in ConEmu Build 150428 Alpha (Apr 30, 2015)

  • Reset FARHOME env.var when creating default {Far} task without full path to far.exe.
  • Default/startup task may be not initialized properly if saved config was partial.
  • Show proper error code in StatusBar if restart console was failed.
  • gh#121: Selecting 'No' when restarting console as admin produced error state.

New in ConEmu Build 150427 Alpha (Apr 28, 2015)

  • gh#112: Python with Tk: rightclick menu window not showing.
  • Set FARHOME env.var in default created Far tasks. That is because otherwise FARHOME may hold wrong value and plugins may be loaded from wrong place.
  • So, the example task {Far Manager::Far 3.0 x64} will be:
  • set "FARHOME=C:\Program Files\Far Manager" & "�RHOME%\far.exe" /w /p"%ConEmuDir%\Plugins\ConEmu;�RHOME%\Plugins"
  • Show link to ConEmuArgs.html on bad switch using.
  • If tab is renamed manually or via -new_console:t:??? new name will be shown in ConEmu window title. Now it's possible to create some AHK scripts checking ConEmu title.
  • xterm keys: Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End, Ctrl+Ins, Ctrl+Del, Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+PgDn.

New in ConEmu Build 150420 Preview (Apr 22, 2015)

  • Warn if MacType hookers are loaded in ConEmuC/ConEmuC64. User have to exclude these processes in the MacType configuration.
  • Allow to quit ConEmu by cross-clicking in the ‘Fast configuration’ dialog.
  • Startup task field was not filled properly in the Fast configuration dialog sometimes.
  • User had to press `Enter` to start find text from SearchBox if the match was above visible area.
  • Clean up ConEmu_Tilde.xml from default settings.

New in ConEmu Build 150419 Preview (Apr 21, 2015)

  • DefTerm. First VisualStudio debugging session was not processed by DefTerm.
  • Default settings were not applied on first start (suggested startup task).
  • gh#104: Add default task for Git-for-Windows-v2.
  • gh#107: Quoted Task names were not working after ConEmu.exe `-cmd` argument.
  • Warning 'Maximum real console size was reached' was appeared sometimes during several splits tab closing.

New in ConEmu Build 150416 Alpha (Apr 17, 2015)

  • gh#96: DefTerm was failed to hook VS Debugging console applications. Avoid deadlocks.
  • Issue 1965: Correct 3rd state condition for ‘Change prompt text cursor position with LClick’.
  • gh#99: Make Update confirmation dialog a child of main ConEmu window.
  • Show in the update confirmation dialog the type of action: x86/x64 for installer or (7-Zip).
  • Allow using tasks in ‘Recreate’ dialog.
  • Let's create default tasks {Bash::Msys2-64} and {Bash::Msys2-32} in new configs.
  • Add tab icon to default tasks: {Bash::MinGW bash}, {Bash::CygWin bash}, {SDK::WinSDK x.x}.
  • Use "CmdInit.cmd" instead of direct "set PROMPT=..." in default cmd's tasks.

New in ConEmu Build 150409 Alpha (Apr 10, 2015)

  • gh#63: Option ‘Auto save/restore tabs’ was conflicted with unchecked ‘Quit on close’.
  • Some of GuiMacro functions must be executed in the main thread only.

New in ConEmu Build 150408 Alpha (Apr 9, 2015)

  • Far plugins folder can't be configured in MSI-installer anymore. They are installed in %ConEmuDir%\Plugins. If you need separate Far installations - use Far.exe /p... switch.
  • Issue 1590: Speed up cygwin commands execution.
  • Show process information in the ‘Injecting remove failed’ message.
  • Don't add spare default Far tasks, UnExpand paths if possible.

New in ConEmu Build 150405 Alpha (Apr 6, 2015)

  • Redesign ‘Fast configuration’ dialog. Add ‘Start command’, ‘Palette’, ‘Quake style with HotKey’.
  • Choose preferred startup Task for new configs (Far -> TCC -> NYAOS -> cmd).
  • Fix wrong position of duplicate hotkey warning balloon.
  • Detect console buffer corruption and log it.
  • Sometimes during kmk build script execution something very bad happens with console buffer and lines like following were written to log

New in ConEmu Build 150331 Alpha (Apr 3, 2015)

  • gh#88: Allow ‘Apps’ key to use as single hotkey.
  • GuiMacro. Bugfixes and new function:
  • Function delimiter ‘;’ was ignored without brackets.
  • Support escapes in C-strings with "ConEmu -GuiMacro ...".
  • ‘Shell’ function without args must create new console.
  • Some functions will be postponed when RCon initialization finishes. To force postponing add ‘@’ prefix.
  • Add ‘Recreate’ function (‘Create’ is an alias). It can open ‘New console’ dialog, create default shell without confirmation, restart current tab (pane), optionally as Administrator. Following example shows ‘New console’ dialog, and inserts into started command prompt: ‘echo "Hello world"’.

New in ConEmu Build 150327 Preview (Mar 30, 2015)

  • All links were updated to ‘http://conemu.github.io’.
  • Default StatusBar columns were changed.
  • In some cases font size (StatusBar, TabBar) was smaller than expected in new configs.
  • Allow to stop buzzing when started with '-basic' switch.
  • Сhocolatey packets are released officially now.

New in ConEmu Build 150309 Preview (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Issue 1937: ‘Admin shield’ in TabBar was broken.
  • Only use "ConEmu.ico" name as possible external icon.
  • Logging. Log ConEmu icon loading, created startup consoles, overlay icon actions.

New in ConEmu Build 150307a Preview (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Issue 1931 , gh#67: ConEmu's output was blocked after maximizing window.

New in ConEmu Build 150307 Preview (Mar 10, 2015)

  • gh#65: Min size for active cursor changes were not saved.
  • Create toolbar buttons as large as the size of the tabbar.
  • Take current dpi into account while creating tab icons.
  • Issue 1929: Quake position was changed unexpectedly after Win+D / restore.
  • Issue 1792 : Unexpected console resize happens after Win+D Win+D.
  • gh#66: New tab template ‘%f’ shows shell's current folder name. Check wiki ShellWorkDir.

New in ConEmu Build 150305 Preview (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Wrong tab was activated sometimes by mouse click if there was a scroll buttons on the TabBar.
  • Do not do tab flickering while switching them by mouse clicks.
  • White background flickering was occured sometimes during ConEmu startup.
  • Default tasks were created sometimes not properly quoted.
  • Add ‘Ranges’ drop-down list to pseudographics font settings with some predefines.
  • Issue 1927 : Key-Up event for ‘Space’ and ‘Enter’ in ReadConsoleInputA.
  • gh#63: Switch -cur_console:d:... was not stripped from Task while running shell sometimes.
  • While creating 'Auto save/restore' task add all -cur_console switches before the shell itself.

New in ConEmu Build 150303 Preview (Mar 4, 2015)

  • Issue 1925: Single character between two gray blocks was obscured (ex. OEM ‘B1 C1 B1’).

New in ConEmu Build 150302b Alpha (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Far Tasks. Show bitness x86/x64 in the task name.
  • Far Tasks. If only one Far installation found - just use {Far} as task name.
  • Far Tasks. Sort default Far tasks by version.
  • When dropping files in the Far Manager prompt, show ‘+ Enter’ menu items first.
  • TCC tasks were not created by default.
  • Issue 1923: ‘ConEmu here’ was forced to "%USERPROFILE%" from certain folders. If user starts ‘ConEmu here’ from "%ConEmuDir%", "%windir%" or "%windir%\system32" ConEmu was switched to "%USERPROFILE%". That's because these folders may be used if user starts ConEmu (or just cmd as DefTerm) from bare Win+R. So, the switch "/here" was implemented, it's not shown in the Settings dialog. User needs to re-register ‘ConEmu here’ existing commands.
  • Process ‘ConEmu[64].exe’ returns exit code of last terminated shell.
  • Switch "/QuitOnClose" forces ConEmu window closing with last tab.

New in ConEmu Build 150302a Alpha (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Issue 1921 : Regression: Fix a crash on last tab close (WinXP).

New in ConEmu Build 150302 Alpha (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Show current tab icon as Windows 7 taskbar overlay icon.
  • Visible region lock (scrolling) was unexpectedly dropped sometimes.
  • Add all installed (and found) Far Manager installations while creating default tasks.
  • Issue 1920 : Fix visual defect in window padding area during Quake style slide down animation.
  • Allow Quake window resizing and moving.
  • Fixed resize issues after Quake slide up/down.
  • Add to the TabMenu items ‘Split to right’ and ‘Split to bottom’.
  • Untick ‘Auto minimize to TSA’ when turning Quake mode off.
  • ToolBar buttons min/max/close were not properly shown/hidden on some options changing.
  • gh#57: Cannot restore prevoisly opened tabs if there was a task marked as ‘Default for new console’.
  • Consoles were not resized sometimes after Win+Left/Right (snap window to left/right monitor edge).
  • After restoring snapped window the snapped state was dropped (window was put to ‘Normal’ position).

New in ConEmu Build 150224a Alpha (Feb 26, 2015)

  • Issue 1917 : Avoid ‘Win+Shift+Delete is not unique’ error.

New in ConEmu Build 150224 Alpha (Feb 25, 2015)

  • One more correction of keyboard input processing
  • Option ‘Treat font height as device units’ was not saved in new config
  • Pseudographics font was incorrectly sized on some dpi-s
  • HotKeys. Implemented ‘Kill all but shell’ function. Default hotkey Win+Shift+Delete for new configs. Also it is accessible from TabMenu or SystemMenu and GuiMacro: terminate all but shell process Close(10), no confirm Close(10,1). Note. If there is a shell only - confirm user to kill the shell
  • Don't do "ConEmuCpCvt" conversion if some chars were failed
  • Ability to change ‘processor affinity’ and ‘process priority’ for all running processes. The function affects all running processes in the current console (tab/pane). Available from TabMenu and SystemMenu item ‘Affinity/priority...’, HotKey and GuiMacro AffinityPriority([Affinity,Priority]). Unless you specify ‘Affinity’ or ‘Priority’ in GuiMacro function ConEmu will show dialog with affinity/priority options
  • Issue 1911 : Do not scroll out of found position after clicking in the console to allow select text there
  • Option ‘Skip click on activation’ was not working sometimes
  • Allow physical scroll down of the console until the cursor remains visible
  • Internal. Fix wrong logging message for WA_ACTIVE
  • During excessing keyboard activity console contents was updated slowly
  • Switch "/bypass" creates processes with normal priority
  • gh#59: Message ‘Failed to start task in user mode, timeout’ was appeared after updating
  • gh#56: Do not use RVAL_REF with GCC
  • LogFiles were not created for far.exe sometimes
  • Do not flush logs after each line to avoid lags

New in ConEmu Build 150216 Alpha (Feb 17, 2015)

  • GuiMacro: Issue 1411 , gh#58. WindowPosSize. It changes window pos and size, same as ‘Apply’ button in the ‘Size & Pos’ page of the Settings dialog.
  • GuiMacro: Simplify passing string arguments.

New in ConEmu Build 150215 Alpha (Feb 16, 2015)

  • Add menu item ‘Online &Help’ to the SystemMenu.
  • After AppDistinct settings change console was not redrawn properly sometimes.
  • Sometimes true colors were not used while executing smth like "edit:

New in ConEmu Build 150209 Alpha (Feb 10, 2015)

  • Issue 1897: Tear off started "ConEmu.exe" from "taskeng.exe" (switch /demote). Let process created from task sheduler runs indefinitely.
  • Auto save window size & pos is turned on by default.
  • Add test batch "utf-8-test.cmd" (check console unicode capabilities).
  • Suggest ConEmuXml storage for new configurations by default.
  • Issue 1870: Rename dialog was shown out of screen if tabs were on bottom.

New in ConEmu Build 150203 Alpha (Feb 4, 2015)

  • Change text cursor position with ‘LeftClick’ was not working when PSReadLine was loaded in your $profile. Look at RevokeMouseInput.ps1.
  • github#20: ‘Ctrl-Left’ and ‘Ctrl-Right’ was not working in Vim/xterm.
  • Create new console confirmation now if disabled by default. So ‘Win+W’ or ‘LClick’ on the [+] button creates new default task. The default task may be choosed in the ‘Tasks’ settings page. New console dialog (command, directory, as admin, and so on) may be shown with:
  • ‘Win+Shift+W’;
  • ‘Shift+LClick’, ‘RClick’ or ‘LongTap’ on the [+];
  • ‘New console dialog...’ menu item (down arrow about [+]).
  • Window and tab closing confirmations now are disabled by default. But if there are more than a two user processes running in the console - close confirmation may be shown. So, there are thee checkboxes now:
  • Confirm window closing (unchecked);
  • Confirm tab closing (unchecked);
  • When running process was detected (checked).

New in ConEmu Build 150119 Alpha (Jan 20, 2015)

  • Issue 1864: ExportEnvVar. Drop variable instead of setting it to empty string.
  • Don't show both small and large icons in the confirmation/about dialogs.
  • Internal. GuiMacro "Context" was not returned result as expected.
  • BTW, usage example: print("abc"); Split(2); Context(); print("def")
  • Minor change in 16x16 icon, add 256x256 icon, update icons in setupper.
  • Allow ‘Debug active process’ while ChildGui is stopped by ConEmuReportExe on loading.
  • Remove GetVersionEx warnings (internal).
  • Debug purposes switch: ConEmuC -OsVerInfo. Sets errorlevel to OsVer. Ex.: Win7 -> 1537 (0x601)
  • Link ConEmuHk64.dll and ConEmuCD64.dll statically with msvcrt.dll.
  • Issue 1865: Fix weird hungs in LdrpAcquireLoaderLock (cmd.exe).
  • Emulate AnsiCon environment variables.
  • "ANSICON" = "WxH (wxh)", where W,H size of the buffer, w,h - window.
  • "ANSICON_DEF" = "BF", (B)ackground and (F)oreground color indexes (hex).
  • "ANSICON_VER" = "170", does not exist in the environment block.
  • Support some more ANSI SGR codes (22, 23, 24).
  • "ESC [ 22 m" - Unset BrightOrBold
  • "ESC [ 23 m" - Unset ItalicOrInverse
  • "ESC [ 24 m" - Unset BackOrUnderline
  • Issue 1865: Allow ANSI escape sequences when redirecting to device CON.

New in ConEmu Build 150111 Alpha (Jan 20, 2015)

  • New ConEmu icon.
  • HighDpi fixes (if primary mon is 192dpi and secondary is 96dpi).
  • Search icon size on secondary monitor was huge.
  • Settings dialog controls were sized too large.
  • DefTerm. Aggressive mode was not be able to disabled actually.
  • GuiMacro. Allow to execute some GuiMacro after ConEmu window creation. Example:
  • ConEmu -Detached -GuiMacro "Task(""{cmd}""); Settings"
  • Issue 1861: GuiMacro. Context([[,]]).
  • Don't try to start clink if cmd is started just for single command execution.
  • Fix incorrect buffer address passed when getting AutoRun reg key value.
  • Small improvements for build settings in VS12 project.

New in ConEmu Build 141221 Alpha (Dec 23, 2014)

  • Issue 1846: Script is not supported here (5909d9f regression).
  • Split options set in the ‘Create new console’ dialog not take precedence of any specified in the Task itself (first task's command actually).
  • CmdInit.cmd: Print Windows version while initializing.
  • Add "ConEmuC /EXPORT=GUI [Var1 [Var2 [...]]]" for exporting vars to ConEmu GUI only.
  • DefaultTasks. Use registry's ‘App Paths’ while searching for exe files.
  • Let Git bash use git.ico and try to find it using registry.
  • In some cases ConEmuHk was not properly deinitialized within cygwin/msys.

New in ConEmu Build 141217 Alpha (Dec 18, 2014)

  • Reorder create console hotkeys
  • Now it's possible to choose ‘Default task for new console (Win+W)’ and ‘Default shell (Win+X)’
  • Let's choose which tasks add to Windows 7 jump lists (check box ‘Taskbar jump lists’)

New in ConEmu Build 141216 Alpha (Dec 17, 2014)

  • Issue 1705: In some cases ConEmuBg config xml file was not loaded properly.
  • Prefill MemoryDump Save as dialog with default dump file name.
  • Debugger. Fix creation of several memory dumps at a time.
  • Debug. Add menu item ‘SystemMenu\Debug\Active tree memory dump’.
  • Tab was sometimes closed unexpectedly while recreating as Admin.
  • Inherit environment variables while starting new tab from existing one (-new_console, start).
  • Issue 1840 : Administrator privilege was not persisting to child tabs.
  • Fix ‘Numpad with NumLock is ON’, ‘Tab’ and ‘Shift-Tab’ processing within xterm keyboard emulation (Vim).
  • LogFiles ‘ConEmu-Input-*.log’ were not created in some cases.

New in ConEmu Build 141208 Preview (Dec 9, 2014)

  • Issue 980 : Far Manager was not resized properly after exiting NTVDM application.
  • Status [Disabled] was not shown for ‘Delete word leftward to the cursor’ hotkey.
  • While selection is present - force RClick to copy/paste internally if ‘Intelligent mode’ is on.
  • Add status bar columns for VCon window sizes in pixels.

New in ConEmu Build 141206 Preview (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Fix resize issues with NTVDM (old DOS) applications
  • Some more internal logging

New in ConEmu Build 141204 Preview (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Issue 1832: Some file size zeros was missed in Far's Tiles mode.
  • Update counters FPS/RPS calculation.
  • Add to counters keyboard performance (delay between keypress and console reaction).

New in ConEmu Build 141203 Preview (Dec 4, 2014)

  • Powershell's "get-help Get-ChildItem -full | out-host -paging" did not react to Space/Enter.
  • LogFiles: Log ‘IsAdmin’ state and ServerPID changes.
  • Fix Coverity warnings (from Michael Lukashov).

New in ConEmu Build 141201 Preview (Dec 2, 2014)

  • In some cases using ‘Cmd_Autorun’ was causing crashes
  • Far active directory was not refresed in Tab labels if macro ‘%d’ was used in template
  • Use simple "ConEmuC -IsConEmu" instead of "ConEmuC -GuiMacro IsConEmu" in ‘Cmd_Autorun’
  • Was not warned about wrong place (invalid switch) of "-new_console:a" with ConEmu.exe
  • Issue 1828: ‘Cmd_Autorun’ fails if processes were started under different credentials
  • Command was forced into new ConEmu tab even if -new_console was quoted with non-double-quotes

New in ConEmu Build 141130 Preview (Dec 1, 2014)

  • Redesign ‘Features’ settings page.
  • Sleep in background: don't force inactive tabs to high activity state on startup.
  • More server-side logging of ‘sleep in background’.
  • Fix multiple Sleep-s appeared in tabs (ConEmuSleepIndicator=TITLE).
  • In some cases wrong installer bitness was used with autoupdate. If ConEmu.exe was started but both x86 and x64 versions were installed.
  • Issue 1812 : Bypass Windows 10 bug with GetConsoleDisplayMode.
  • Changes in the setting ‘tab flash count’ field were ignored.
  • Issue 1826: Changes of the checkbox ‘Aggressive mode’ were ignored.
  • Let inform user about unhandles checkbox clicks.
  • Don't leave flashed tab in highlighted state by default. If one need to leave it highlighted set flash counter to ODD value.
  • InactiveFlash: Running Far ignore top visible line (with clock).
  • InactiveFlash: Don't flash while Far is doing something with progress.
  • InactiveFlash: Support flashing for Far viewers also.
  • InactiveFlash: Use tab suffix instead of separate template.
  • Issue 1825: Don't try to force Macro execution.

New in ConEmu Build 141126 Preview (Nov 27, 2014)

  • Issue 1590 , Issue 1793 : Slow input response in some cases (after startup or tab switching).
  • Some controls on the ‘Features’ page were overlapped.

New in ConEmu Build 141125 Preview (Nov 26, 2014)

  • Issue 1821: Don't force "start /min ..." to be new ConEmu tab.
  • Issue 1822 : Option to disable forcing "start" to be new ConEmu tab.
  • Don't block row/col highlight updating if mouse is inside VCon even if ConEmu is not a foreground window.
  • Let switch and update row/col highlight simultaneously for all panes in group.
  • Don't flash tab created in background.
  • Don't flash just deactivated tab.
  • Shorten color scheme name .
  • Move ‘Schemes’ drop down to the top of ‘Colors’ settings page.
  • Redesign ‘Fast configuration’ dialog.

New in ConEmu Build 141123 Preview (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Add color scheme.
  • LogFiles: Log Far plugin PID changes.
  • LogFiles: Log Far macro execution.
  • Show in the window title ‘{%%}’ if the progress was set to indeterminated state.
  • Remove lag switching to inactive cmd's tab after window resize.
  • Apps+G must group input only active panes.
  • Issue 1161: Maximize/restore active pane. Apps+Enter, GuiMacro Split(3), optional DblClick on tab.
  • Try to force set CF_LOCALE (optional setting "CTS.ForceLocale") while copying.
  • Make GitShowBranch.cmd multi-process aware.
  • Make close confirmation texts clearer.
  • Win+Ctrl+Del closes active group.
  • Issue 1807: Allow GuiMacro execution in specified tab or split.
  • ConEmuC /GUIMACRO[:PID|HWND][:T][:S]
  • is 1-based tab index
  • is 1-based pane index of selected/active group of panes
  • Issue 1819: ConEmu broke cygwin's pipeline in some rare cases.
  • Issue 1809: Inactive (invisible) tab flash on activity.
  • Setting "TabFlashChanged". 0 - disabled, >0 - infinite, ODD - leave highlighted, EVEN - turn off after flashing.
  • Setting "TabModified" set template for those modified tabs.
  • Both settings are available on ‘Tabs’ settings page.
  • Use keyboard hooks to process ‘Switch focus between ConEmu and ChildGui’.
  • Use Win+Z (by default) for ‘Switch focus between ConEmu and ChildGui’.
  • Was not able to set focus into ConEmu after CtrlWinAltSpace with ChildGui.

New in ConEmu Build 141117 Preview (Nov 18, 2014)

  • Default color scheme set back to . To get git's proper colored output for scheme run: git config --global color.diff.new "green bold"
  • Extend fonts listboxes were not enabled properly.
  • Esc was not working in the ‘Commands’ field on the ‘Tasks’ settings page.
  • Apply button on ‘Size & Pos’ page was not working, size fields were rolled back after ‘Apply’ was pressed.
  • Command "start cmd" from ConEmu tab must start new tab.
  • Issue 653: New ConEmu.exe switches: -Wnd{X|Y|W|H} . This will force ConEmu window to position/size. Size supports cells (-WndW 80), percents (-WndW 50%) and pixels (-WndW 100px).
  • Issue 1815 : ConEmu panel view plugin does not despect AppDistinct palette overrides.

New in ConEmu Build 141116 Preview (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Issue 1812: Vertical scroll bar has disappeared in latest Win10 build.
  • Use modified
  • palette by default (for new configs).
  • Show error box if Server and GUI has wrong protocol versions. Log errors also.
  • LogFiles: Add root shell's start/exit logging.
  • LogFiles: Log ‘CMD's AutoRuns’ strings from registry.
  • LogFiles: Log Prompt/HookServer starts.
  • Show actual 4-bit colors in the ExtendedConsole color selection dialog.

New in ConEmu Build 141115 Preview (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Show asterisk insted of minus in the ‘Visible region lock’ StatusBar column.
  • AutoUpdate: Postpone was not working.
  • AutoUpdate: Don't show spare close confirmation after ‘Close & Update’ confirmation.
  • More logging of console buffer changes.

New in ConEmu Build 141114 Preview (Nov 15, 2014)

  • Scroll position was ignored when starting selection with ‘Freeze console...’ enabled option.
  • Don't reset scroll position on KeyUp, only KeyDown are taken into account.
  • New switch "-cur_console:R" to force start of hooks server in the parent process.
  • AnsiEscapeCodes: Color change was ignored specified before ‘$E]9;8;"env"$E’.
  • Add "CmdInit.cmd" to "%ConEmuBaseDir%". Set up pretty cmd prompt with optional git info.
  • GitShowBranch: Take into account PROMPT settings was set in the "CmdInit.cmd".
  • Redesign About dialog (tabs on the right).
  • Add ‘SysInfo’ page to the About dialog.
  • Issue 1799: Log clipboard operations.
  • Fix dialog flickering while dragging to monitor with another dpi value.

New in ConEmu Build 141113 Preview (Nov 15, 2014)

  • Issue 1745: Fix overscaled dialogs.

New in ConEmu Build 141112 Preview (Nov 13, 2014)

  • Issue 1789 : Far Thumbnails - current item was not changed if QSearch was active (Far 3 api break). Patch works with Far3bis 4188+ only.
  • Far Thumbnails - fix arrow move if QSearch is active.
  • Force using "%ConEmuDrive%" instead of "%SystemDrive%" when populating default tasks.

New in ConEmu Build 141111 Preview (Nov 13, 2014)

  • Group keyboard input for visible splits: Apps+G.
  • Issue 1803: Unable to check quake-style setting ‘Auto-hide on focus lost’.
  • Fix Coverity warnings (from Michael Lukashov).
  • Fix broken theme on search control after quake activation.
  • FileLineDetector: Fix broken "abc.py (1): ...".
  • FileLineDetector: Fix broken mail detection, support stop on punctuations.

New in ConEmu Build 141110 Preview (Nov 12, 2014)

  • Issue 1802 : GuiMacro: Add ‘Pause’ ability. When you press ‘Pause’ RCon is forced into ‘internal selection’ state which cause pausing of most console writing applications.
  • StatusBar text color was broken after ‘Visible region lock’.
  • Old ‘PicViewSlide’ hotkeys were removed.
  • Donate link was changed.
  • FileLineDetector: Fix broken "file.cpp(123) : error...".
  • FileLineDetector: Support quotation trimming.
  • Fix warnings and typos

New in ConEmu Build 141109 Preview (Nov 10, 2014)

  • Issue 1801 : FileLineDetector: In addition to a/ b/ support i/ c/ w/ o/ also.
  • Move StatusBar's ‘Visible region lock’ column near to ‘Active console buffer’.
  • GuiMacro. Add description of ‘Progress 3’.
  • If ‘Copy on Left Button release’ was unchecked console was unexpectedly scrolled even if LButton was Up.
  • Fix admin consoles initialization.
  • Fix PVS warnings

New in ConEmu Build 141107 Preview (Nov 10, 2014)

  • FileLine detector. Fix false detection of "index 621e2f9..d0abbf9 100644".
  • FileLine detector. Support git diffs style: "a/src/ConEmu.cpp" and "b/src/ConEmu.cpp".
  • Splits was not taken into account when resizing window by top/bottom edges.
  • Hotkey Win+Alt+T shows ‘Tasks’ settings page.
  • After palette change selected color option was ignored, was used ‘RRR GGG BBB’.
  • Fix search pane size/pos (theming).
  • Don't beep on Esc press in search pane.
  • Lets stop search by F10 keypress.
  • If search pane was empty clicking in the workspace was not stop searching.
  • Lets drag window by free place of the TabBar.
  • Fix Coverity warning

New in ConEmu Build 141105 Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Some splits were not displayed on startup (d592a05 regression).
  • ConEmuEnvironment: set ConEmuIsAdmin=ADMIN for those tabs/splits which were started elevated (UAC).
  • Add colored prompt to default cmd's tasks.
  • TabMenu was reorganized. Some menu items were moved into submenus.
  • Internal. Try to wait a little if GUI was not in time with RCon server initialization.

New in ConEmu Build 141104a Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Issue 1792 : RBTray caused console crop (ff25dbc regression).
  • Use palette by default.

New in ConEmu Build 141104 Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Issue 1790 : Minimize/restore crops console size (ff25dbc regression).
  • Fix Coverity warnings and leaks

New in ConEmu Build 141103 Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Don't snap-jump by Win+Arrow if About dialog is at foreground.
  • Search for opened tab by full path instead of name only while Ctrl+Click on hyperlink (compiler errors).
  • Far Macro: Use ‘elseif’ keyword.
  • Far Macro: Use ‘ACTL_SETCURRENTWINDOW’ in ‘ConEmu.Editor.lua’.
  • Use solarized colors for StatusBar by default.
  • fix PVS warnings (from Michael Lukashov).
  • Issue 1784 : Ctrl+Click did not recognize: C:\Work\Test.php:36
  • Change autoupdate source information to github.
  • Fix wrong per-monitor-dpi jumps.

New in ConEmu Build 141101 Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Was failed with creating new xml config if empty xml file with BOM was exists.
  • Fix hung up after changing dpi with GuiMacro from command line.
  • Fix messed Far window number in the ‘ConEmu - tabs list’ (another Far api break).
  • Predefined palettes and were changed.
  • Init by default extended colors (16..31) with standard windows palette.
  • Support new parsing format in the colors edit fields ‘00BBGGRR’ (just for copying from "*.reg" files).
  • Increase max text length in colors edit fields (copy/paste purposes).
  • Add button ‘Default’ to the ‘Colors’ settings page. It resets colors 16..31 to standard windows palette.
  • Add radiobutton styles of color formats.
  • Minor RunQueue optimizations and other internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 141029 Alpha (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Show menu item hints in the StatusBar instead of tool tips.
  • Issue 1731 : Fix assertion on cancel split window dialog (user/password confirmation).
  • Fix resize/minimize/restore lags and asserts.
  • Don't create new console if user cancels new console dialog (split window, user/password confirmation).
  • Between-monitor jump fixes (per-monitor dpi related).

New in ConEmu Build 141028 Alpha (Oct 29, 2014)

  • Some listboxes in the Settings dialog was not filled properly. ‘EOL’ and ‘Back color’ were messed up.
  • Foreground color for selected text was ignored.
  • Show selection colors preview on the ‘Mark/Copy’ settings page.
  • Far's ‘User screen transparency’ was not working properly.
  • Selection status message was not dropped when ‘Find text’ dialog was closed.
  • Create search control in the Tab bar. It may be focused by old shortcut (‘Apps+F’ by default). When search control is focused, one may open search menu by ‘Apps’ or RClick. Control may be shown/hid with checkbox on the ‘Appearance’ settings page.
  • Issue 1777 : Skip Far macro execution errors in some cases.
  • Internal fixes of wrong MF_SEPARATOR usage.
  • Force search scroll-buffer on search repeat (‘Freeze console’ must be on).

New in ConEmu Build 141025 Alpha (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Issue 1321 : Splitter calculation changed.
  • Try to move splitter with mouse dragging.
  • Consider monitor dpi in splitter size.
  • Issue 1747 : ‘Menu’ -> ‘Close or kill’ -> ‘Close all zombies’. This will close all dummy consoles, waiting for "Press Enter or Esc ...". Hotkey is available and new GuiMacro Close(9[,1]).
  • Issue 1734 : Try not to call FCTL_GETPANELDIRECTORY to get panel directories (ftp plugin issues).
  • Fix wrong StatusBar's first column width evaluation.
  • Due to useless Far3's window number let use 0-based window indexes as Far3build2798 and lower.
  • Adapt "ConEmu.ShiftEnter.lua" to broken Far windows behavior.
  • Add "%ConEmuExeDir%" before "%ConEmuBaseDir%" in "%PATH%". So user may copy batch from "%ConEmuBaseDir%" to "%ConEmuExeDir%", make desired changes and be sure it will not be overwrited after new update. For example, move "csudo.cmd" from subfolder with "ConEmuC.exe" to the folder with "ConEmu.exe" and change the option in the beginning to: "set ConEmuSplit=NO".
  • Don't show "mp_RCon->m_GetDataPipe.Transact failed" errors, log them only.

New in ConEmu Build 141022 Alpha (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Correct snap/tile ConEmu window to left/right/by-width/by-height.
  • Show snap/tile status on the Settings/Info page.
  • Rename maximize/tile hotkeys' descriptions. ‘Maximize height / width’ -> ‘Snap .. to top/bottom / left/right edges ...’ and ‘Tile ConEmu ...’ -> ‘Snap ConEmu ...’
  • Update Far3/lua headers to build 4040.
  • Let Plugin.SyncCall("4B675D80-1D4A-4EA9-8436-FDC23F2FC14B","...") returns result as string if succeeded.
  • lua:far.Message(Plugin.SyncCall("4B675D80-1D4A-4EA9-8436-FDC23F2FC14B","IsConEmu"))
  • lua:far.Message(Plugin.SyncCall("4B675D80-1D4A-4EA9-8436-FDC23F2FC14B","FindEditor(@\"C:\\autoexec.bat\")"))
  • Hyperlink detector false detect: full directory paths.
  • GuiMacro: New function GetOption("") return string representation of ConEmu option. Example for "Internal CtrlTab" option check (Far 3 lua macro)
  • if Plugin.SyncCall("4B675D80-1D4A-4EA9-8436-FDC23F2FC14B","GetOption TabSelf") == "1" then
  • far.Message("ConEmu 'Internal CtrlTab' is ON")
  • end
  • Issue 1772 : Scroll page up/down stopped to work.
  • Support another Far 3 API breaking change (tabs).

New in ConEmu Build 141020 Alpha (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Try to hilight "folder\file" and do not hilight fakes and dirs.
  • Internal. Helper script NewClass.ps1 for creating in-project cpp/h pairs
  • Make possible to use "\e]0;text\a".
  • Let process "^a" in "ConEmuC -e " (-> "\x07").
  • Issue 660: Switch "/AUTOATTACH" was not run asynchronously in some cases.
  • Attach: Switch "/GHWND=NEW" may create garbaged command line.
  • Attach: If "/AUTOATTACH" is specified, run server of same bitness as root/parent process.
  • Scroll. Changing scrolling style. All scrollings in ConEmu are now processed virtually, RealConsole is not touched anymore.
  • Add StatusBar column: Visible region lock.
  • Favor first and grip status columns to be fully visible.
  • Log tab activation errors (Far windows).

New in ConEmu Build 141017 Alpha (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Far editor was opened at 1-st line instead of stored cursor position on Ctrl+LClick on filename without line number.
  • Issue 657 : Eager+recent tab switching doesn't cycle all tabs.
  • Issue 1763 : Assertion while starting something with redirection.
  • Issue 1764: Some files/hyperlinks detector issues.

New in ConEmu Build 141016 Alpha (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Issue 1758 : Support file/line format for php: "C:\..\test.php:28".
  • Hyperlinks: Check file existence before opening.
  • Hyperlinks: If clicked file was not found, try to find it in subfolders.
  • Hyperlinks: Try to make file path properly cased before opening (realconsole.cpp -> RealConsole.cpp).
  • Issue 1754 : SystemMenu was opened by RClick on the title bar was not working on some XP machines.
  • Issue 166 : Tab switch was not working from ‘ConEmu plugin -> T’.
  • Do not turn on ‘Long console output’ during "edit:

New in ConEmu Build 141013 Alpha (Oct 14, 2014)

  • Issue 1753: Cursor goes out of screen while executing commands from "far" without "/w".
  • Issue 1754: Some changes with using WM_SYSCOMMAND.
  • More logging of SystemMenu processing.
  • If SystemMenu was opened by LClick on the title bar icon and closed by Esc promptly ConEmu window may be closed.
  • ConEmu.ShiftEnter.*: Check if plugin is ready to process "ConEmu:run:" prefix.
  • Do not request synchronous paint of the status bar from background threads.

New in ConEmu Build 141012 Alpha (Oct 13, 2014)

  • Ensure that just installed (new config) ConEmu's window will not be larger that monitor working area.
  • While converting old config do not get data from LogFont if it was not created yet.
  • Use wiki page ‘Issues’ instead of ‘/issues/entry’ to avoid bad authorization redirection.
  • Fix Apps+PgDn description misprint.
  • Issue 1334 : ConEmu plugin was not realized the attach is finished (call from plugin menu).
  • Tab initialization fix for "far.exe /e ...".
  • Ctrl+LClick was failed in some cases (Far editor, Lua macro).
  • Issue 1731: Fix attach external Far Manager console from plugin (not recommended though).
  • Update application manifests to Windows 10.
  • Attach list (Win+G) was failed sometimes with showing correct bitness of processes.
  • Show new console size in the status bar during resizing with mouse.
  • Issue 1568: Try to hold cursor position (bottom visible line) in the bottom after resizing.
  • Restrict minimal GUI height to ({4,2} x {splits count}).
  • Macro: ConEmu.CtrlO.*: the Far default behavior (CtrlO) mapped to CtrlAltO because CtrlShiftO is used for splitting.
  • Issue 1752 : ConEmuTh: add ‘Turn off’ to the plugin menu. Macro option: Plugin.Call(ConEmuTh,256).
  • ConEmu.Editor.lua: Fix auto switch to Editor Tab macro.
  • ConEmu.ShiftEnter.lua: Fix ShiftEnter (run command in new tab) macro.
  • Fix some EmergencyShow multi-process issues.
  • Issue 1745: DPI scaling issues with font's combo boxes.

New in ConEmu Build 141004 Alpha (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Auto switch hovered tabs while dragging files from/to Far panel.
  • Don't try to copy files from "C:\1\" to "C:\1\" (same src and dst folders).
  • Issue 1740 : D&D was not started from Far 1.75.
  • When creating default tasks, show WinSDK version in the tab label.
  • Autocreate VS (vcvarsall.bat) tasks for new configs.

New in ConEmu Build 141002 Alpha (Oct 3, 2014)

  • Preparing for Windows 10.

New in ConEmu Build 141001 Alpha (Oct 2, 2014)

  • ConEmuPlugin was rewritten using classes (Far versioning).
  • Don't activate Far Panels while Ctrl+LClick in Far Editor window.
  • Issue 1717: Auto save/restore opened tabs renamed labels.
  • AnsiEscapeCodes: 'ESC [ 90..97 m' high intensity foreground color, 'ESC [ 100..107' high intensity background color.
  • Issue 1715: 'New window'+'Run as administrator' was created non-elevated window.
  • Don't autoshow scrollbar on mouse hover while ConEmu is not in foreground.
  • Far plugin. F11 -> 'ConEmu' -> 'Show all panels list'. Press enter to 'print' selected path into current Far window.
  • Use macro (ConEmu.PanelsList.lua) to simplify menu call.
  • Plugin.Call("4b675d80-1d4a-4ea9-8436-fdc23f2fc14b",11)
  • Issue 1590: (workaround) Parameter 'StartCreateDelay' may be changed via settings (xml/reg). DWORD 10..10000, default 100.
  • Debug. Some improvement in showing CP and console modes.
  • Debug. Verbose WM_DEADCHAR warning.

New in ConEmu Build 140923 Alpha (Oct 2, 2014)

  • Debug purpose switch: ConEmu.exe -LoadRegistry.
  • Support automatic find/loading of ".ConEmu.xml" (dot prefixed) config file.
  • Wrong dpi was used if starting on second monitor (9df4391 regression).

New in ConEmu Build 140922 Alpha (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Internal: CSettings decomposition.
  • GuiMacro may be used for changing Checkbox/Radio ConEmu's options.
  • SetOption("Check",,)
  • ID: numeric identifier of checkbox (ConEmu.rc, resource.h)
  • Value: 0 - off, 1 - on, 2 - third state
  • Example, turn scrollbar on: ConEmuC -GuiMacro SetOption Check 2488 1
  • Issue 1703: 'file.ext:line:' in hyperlink detector error.
  • File[:line:] hyperlink was not opened in Far editor sometimes (one more 'Desktop' drawback).
  • It was impossible to resize splitters in some configurations. For example, area 3 was not available for resize:
  • Minor xml formatting fix (new line after last MSZ value).
  • Fix false xml modified timestamps updates for Tasks and Palettes.
  • Option ‘KeyBar RClick’ was not working with "Far /w".
  • Wrong DPI was used if creating small window attached to the monitor edge.
  • github#19: Don't post Enter/Space KeyUp events to the console input buffer.

New in ConEmu Build 140914 Alpha (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Wrong macro was sent to Far 3 (Lua) on hyperlink click if file was already opened.
  • Fix drop files to Far command line. Add menu items to press ‘Enter’ after goto/edit/view.
  • Fix wrong ‘sleep/speed’ written to the log.
  • Avoid numerous writing of equal lines to log (console size).
  • Internal changes.
  • Issue 1704 : GuiMacro. User may change option "FarGotoEditorPath" on the fly. Multiple Highlight editors are available now. Just call GuiMacro SetOption function with preferred editor command line. Few examples with ConEmuC
  • conemuc -guimacro setoption FarGotoEditorPath @"far.exe /e%1:%2 ""%3"""
  • conemuc -guimacro setoption FarGotoEditorPath @"#notepad ""%3"""
  • Issue 1711 : Cut start/end quotes from double-quoted commands.

New in ConEmu Build 140909 Alpha (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Verbose tab activation error information.
  • Wrong hotkey was displayed on Tasks page.
  • Debug log was not disabled on Settings window closing.
  • ConEmu frame was not set to inactive state with ChildGui in the active tab.
  • Log current session state changes (/log switch, Issue 1689 related).
  • Wrong dpi value may be used in some cases (dialog sizes, etc.)
  • If ChildGui was in focus, cross clicking was not closed all ConEmu tabs but only active ChildGui.
  • Return focus to ChildGui on ‘Create new console’ dialog cancelling and tab switching.
  • Do not do quake-flicker on Settings dialog opening.

New in ConEmu Build 140908 Alpha (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Issue 1690 : Give more weight to "/dir" ConEmu.exe switch than the same from Task parameter.
  • Issue 1703: Force CD refresh before starting hyperlink (editor).
  • Spare "cmd.exe" was appeared in the process root in some cases.

New in ConEmu Build 140905 Alpha (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Issue 1684 : Long startup of documents from network drives.
  • Issue 1703: Prepare FarPlugin to send both panel CD's to GUI.
  • When exporting settings suggest default for ConEmu.xml folder.
  • Fix indents when creating new xml file.
  • Do not update modified (timestamp) if xml was not really changed during config save.

New in ConEmu Build 140903 Alpha (Sep 5, 2014)

  • Move Background image settings to separate page.
  • In some rare cases background was not drawn.
  • Background was not updated after some changes of ‘Placement’ field.
  • Add dummy (yet) chord hotkey controls to settings.
  • Explain LDrag/RDrag modifiers in hotkey list, show [Disabled] if it LDrag/RDrag is unchecked.
  • Issue 1657: Treat Far space-visualizations as space symbols.
  • Issue 1691: Make simple filenames Ctrl+LClick'able (open file in the editor).
  • Reveal ConEmuC switches in release (/ErrorLevel and /Result).
  • Issue 1696: GuiMacro. Attach([PID[,Alternative]]) allows attaching external console/ChildGui by PID.
  • Keyboard hooks were not disabled when ChildGui has focus and user switching to another app.
  • [Re]store tab working directories using option ‘Auto save/restore opened tabs’. Read more about ShellWorkDir.
  • Issue 1643: gh#10: Try do not change ‘modified’ timestamp in xml if nothing was changed (Auto save window size and position on exit).

New in ConEmu Build 140819 Alpha (Aug 20, 2014)

  • Issue 1666: Fix black squares in RDP sessions (non true-color display modes actually).
  • Issue 1688 : Crash while updating Task bar jump list (6307574 regression).
  • Add ‘Remote session’ and ‘ScreenDC BITSPIXEL’ detection to Log.

New in ConEmu Build 140818 Alpha (Aug 20, 2014)

  • New status bar columns are available: Zoom and DPI. Zoom is clickable.
  • Let statusbar columns Focus/Foreground show process information.
  • Ctrl+WheelClick reset font size to 100, same as GuiMacro Zoom(100).
  • Make all ConEmu's dialogs per-monitor dpi aware.
  • Fix console recreation and termination. If user cancel the UAC dialog during console recreation ConEmu fails to close the window by cross-click.
  • Implement ‘�%’ maintaining in the RCon.
  • Automatic detection of ‘�%’ in "cmd.exe" or "tcc.exe";
  • Ability to inform ConEmu GUI about shell ‘CD’ using ANSI (\e]9;9;"CD"\e\\) or "ConEmuC -StoreCWD dir";
  • Display CD in the tab title using ‘%d’ tab template;
  • Reuse CD in the Restart and Create new console dialogs;
  • At last you may use "�%" variable with Shell macro function in the Dir parameter. Example, start new 'cmd' session:
  • Shell("", "cmd", "", "�%")
  • Issue 1680: Use ‘�%’ within hyperlink detector, warn if file not found.

New in ConEmu Build 140815 Alpha (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1660 : Support "/NoSingle", "/Quake", "/NoQuake" switches in Task parameters. They used while starting new Task from existing ConEmu instance.
  • Quake window can't be hidden by taskbar button click.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140812 Alpha (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1669 : Internal tab switching was broken from Far 4040
  • Issue 1670: Powershell + PSReadLine makes progress get stuck

New in ConEmu Build 140811 Alpha (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1667: Drag&Drop was broken from Far 4040.
  • Issue 1666: Windows XP: Black squares on the toolbar (3fb706a regression)
  • Issue 1334: New buffer scrolling hotkeys.
  • by half-screen - Apps+PgUp/PgDn
  • to the top/bottom - Apps+Home/End
  • to the cursor row - Apps+Backspace
  • GuiMacro: Scroll(,,)

New in ConEmu Build 140810 Alpha (Aug 11, 2014)

  • With courtesy of Certum, ConEmu's binaries now are signed as ‘Open Source Developer, ConEmu-Maximus5’
  • Per-monitor dpi awareness implemented (Windows 8.1). The checkbox ‘Admit monitor dpi with font size’ is turned on by default. It will affect the height of Tabs, Status and Main console fonts
  • Ability to ‘Treat font height as device units’ implemented. The checkbox is turned OFF by default for existing configs, but it is turned ON by default for new configs and after config reset
  • Releases builded via VisualStudio projects was not dpi-aware
  • Issue 1653: In some rare cases ConEmu.exe was locking shell working directory
  • New ConEmu.exe switches: -quake, -quakeauto (autohide on focus lose) and -noquake
  • Checkbox ‘New window’ was ignored if dialog was started from tasks menu with Shift+Click
  • Ensure that console started in the ‘New window’ will not be Quake-moded
  • Ctrl+Wheel changes the zoom value but not a font height from the ‘Main’ settings page

New in ConEmu Build 140723 Alpha (Jul 24, 2014)

  • Issue 1608: DefTerm. /config parameter registered for startup was cleared after OS restart.
  • DefTerm. Started debugging session of Win32 app from VS was ignored DefTerm options.
  • DefTerm. Support flickerless start of Win32 console app debugging session (same bitness as devenv).
  • Make Win+S hotkey for ‘Duplicate root’ by default.
  • Ensure cascaded window will not pass outside of monitor working area.
  • Allow ‘Duplicate root’ even if injects were disabled.
  • Do not leave ‘hunging’ tab if duplicating was failed.
  • Tab title was not changed sometimes during command execution from Far panels.
  • Due to many reports crashdump message was changed (aka MicrosoftBugs, ConEmuHk).
  • Immediate reaction on "ConEmuFakeDT" changing in batch files (7a8e61f regression).
  • Issue 1379: Use ‘Appearance -> Animation’ in ‘normal’ mode too.
  • Many internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140703 Alpha (Jul 4, 2014)

  • Support tabs dragging (reordering).
  • Highlight&Goto: Issue 1624: Don't warn after starting external editor successfully.
  • Highlight&Goto: External editor may fails if located in system32 while ConEmu is 32bit on 64bit OS.
  • Highlight&Goto: Start editor after LButtonUp.
  • Highlight&Goto: Ensure started external editor get focus.
  • New settings page ‘Confirm’, some confirmation options moved here.
  • New setting ‘Confirm tab duplicating (Duplicate root menu item)’ on ‘Confirm’ page.

New in ConEmu Build 140701 Alpha (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Wrong deinitialization ConEmuHk sequence may cause crash on application exit.
  • HTML format copy: Eliminate line spacing and try to match font height.
  • Stack overflow may occurs sometimes on ConEmu dialog popup.
  • New switch: ConEmuC /IsAdmin - returns 1 as errorlevel if current user has elevated privileges, 2 if not.
  • Issue 1626: Fix focus restore with some ChildGui on ConEmu window activation.
  • Issue 1617: Fix performance drawback on GetSystemTime.

New in ConEmu Build 140628 Alpha (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Fix attaching (Win+G from ConEmu) of *.vshost.exe console.
  • GuiMacro. PasteFile able to skip lines started with "" prefix.
  • Issue 1620: Support PuTTY's duplicate session in ‘Duplicate root’ function.
  • GitShowBranch.cmd: drop remote name from branch name (drop tail after first ‘.’).
  • When reopening About dialog, show last selected section.
  • Search in about dialog was on first page with found text.
  • Update confirmation dialogs was not visible if ConEmu was ‘Always on top’.
  • Do not hook ssh-agent.exe, console-outside process was blocking updating of ConEmuHk.dll.
  • Move process creation to separate thread (ConEmu.exe).
  • Added ‘Tomorrow’ color schemes (by Michael Mims).
  • Support ‘Script.ps1:35 char:23’ error format. However, column is ignored as yet.
  • Status ‘Console server started...’ sometimes was not cleared on startup.
  • DefTerm. Feature was rewritten almost from scratch:
  • For accessibility reasons DefTerm settings are mirrored in registry [HKCU\Software\ConEmu]. That means, for example, user may change ‘DefTerm-Enabled’ value to 0 to disable feature any time, even if ConEmu is not running at the moment.
  • Save to registry only from Settings window (DefTerm page clicks) or ConEmu startup (if DefTerm is enabled).
  • Update status bar during DefTerm installation.
  • It is possible to hook processes by their window class name.
  • New ‘Agressive’ mode of DefTerm hooking. Sample usecase:
  • The explorer.exe was hooked (for example with ‘Register on OS startup’ option), when you start new devenv.exe, started process will be hooked from explorer.exe, even if you have not have ConEmu loaded at the moment of devenv.exe start.
  • Allow windowless ‘Register on OS startup’.
  • Server startup fails sometimes if console window was hidden.
  • Seamless startup from VC# debugger, no RealConsole flickering.
  • Many internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140615 Alpha (Jun 17, 2014)

  • GuiMacro. Keys("Enter"), Keys("Tab"), Keys("Backspace") was not working.
  • GuiMacro. Support alternative notation, e.g. Keys("{Enter}").
  • Issue 1125: cmd.exe in administrator mode was not autoattached to ConEmu (Ctrl+Shift+Enter from start menu)
  • Force working directory to %UserProfile% if ConEmu.exe was started from %WinDir%, %WinDir%\system32 or %ConEmuDir%. If you really need to use these working directories - force them with ‘/dir’ switch:
  • ConEmu.exe /dir C:\Windows\System32 /cmd PowerShell.exe
  • Do not run spare cmd.exe when running ""cmd"" (cmd from Windows start menu).
  • Issue 1598: Let Ctrl+Shift+[F|D] start from current console startup directory (current directory in future).
  • Issue 1564: Add tasks to history too.
  • Issue 1615: Op ‘New console’ fails when used startup task.

New in ConEmu Build 140612 Alpha (Jun 13, 2014)

  • VC14 solution files.
  • GuiMacro. Two new options in Copy([,[,""]]) function. GuiMacro: New function PasteFile([,""]), for pasting contents.
  • Issue 1611 : GuiMacro. Optional argument in SetOption function. Set IsRelative=1 to use relative instead of absolute for some options, for example, SetOption("bgImageDarker",-10,1) to make background darker.
  • Add search ability to the About dialog:
  • Do not autoselect text in the About dialog (on Tab press).
  • New design of search control in the Settings dialog:
  • Add ability to search within hotkeys in the Settings dialog.
  • Display found-hint in place of listbox/listview item.
  • Add ‘(Quake-style hotkey also)’ to ‘Minimize/Restore’ hotkey description.
  • DefTerm. Unchecked option ‘Use existing ConEmu window if available’ was ignored in C# VS debugger.
  • DefTerm. Fix external console attach (Win+G) from ConEmu window.
  • DefTerm. Hook ‘Command prompt (Administrator)’ too.
  • Admin sign was not shown after auto-attach of external console.
  • Show version state in the About dialog (stable/preview/alpha/obsolete).
  • Do not show ‘Starting attach autorun’ for default terminal consoles (cmd as Admin).
  • Speed up xml load/save.

New in ConEmu Build 140602 Alpha (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Issue1598: When reopening Settings dialog, show last selected section.
  • Allow prefix '^' in Far macros (through ConEmu) do not send keys to plugins (KMFLAGS_NOSENDKEYSTOPLUGINS).
  • Opening compiler error (hyperlink) in Far editor fails if active plugin panel was processing ShiftF4 itself.
  • Some new features in ‘Ctrl+LClick’ on compiler error (Highlight and goto):
  • Use dropdown for external editor (Ctrl+LClick on compiler errors).
  • New macro ‘%4’ and ‘%5’ for ‘slashed’ paths, so the full macro list is: ‘%1’ - line number, ‘%2’ - column number, ‘%3’ - C:\\Path\\File, ‘%4’ - C:/Path/File, ‘%5’ - /C/Path/File
  • New predefined (available in list) editor command lines for Vim, SciTE, Notepad++ and Sublime.
  • Prefix ‘#’ means ‘run editor outside of ConEmu tab’.
  • Check registry for ‘App Paths’ when no path was specified for editor executable.
  • Force run specified external editor instead of open file in the existing Far instance.
  • GitHub#13: Was unable to save 'Highlight and goto' modifier.
  • Issue1596: Rust-compiled apps were crashed in ConEmu.
  • Use ‘PATH’ defined in the ‘App Paths’ registry key if running application without full path.
  • Internal. Do not turn on session.SetSessionNotification on startup.

New in ConEmu Build 140529 Alpha (May 30, 2014)

  • Hide tab error tooltip after receiving tabs from Far plugin.
  • Active tab was not changed if Far window was switched from ConEmu plugin (F12 macro).

New in ConEmu Build 140528 Alpha (May 30, 2014)

  • Issue 1588: Crash when setting ‘Settings > Main > Cell = -1’.
  • Show Far editors/viewers tabs from all panes, but not active VCon only.
  • Issue 1594: Do not expect space after ‘file.ext:line:’ in hyperlink detector.
  • Update Far panel tab title immediately after pressing Ctrl-F10 in editor.
  • Do not add trailing space while pasting with RBtnClick.

New in ConEmu Build 140523 Alpha (May 26, 2014)

  • Do not push ‘background’ tabs on top of recent stack during task creation.
  • Do not block tab activation (VCon actually) if VCon has the only tab or that tab already active.
  • Issue 1582: Ctrl+Tab was broken if Tab bar is not visible (NewTabs regression).
  • NewTabs: Fix empty tab title in some cases (VConMenu, etc.)
  • Fix wrong behavior of right clicks on tool bar buttons

New in ConEmu Build 140522 Alpha (May 23, 2014)

  • Some fixes related to new tabs internals.
  • Issue 1583: Fix ConEmu.Editor.lua bug.
  • Wrong startup directory used when starting at the drive root.
  • Allow rename any Far tab, not only panels.
  • Two new switches (commands actually) in ConEmuC: "-e" and "-t".
  • ConEmuC -e [-n] [-r] [-b] "string" for printing some string
  • ConEmuC -t [-r] [-b] "file" for printing some text file
  • Force "CHERE_INVOKING" in default tasks for cygwin.

New in ConEmu Build 140519 Alpha (May 20, 2014)

  • Experimental build
  • Refactoring of Server startup.
  • Refactoring of Tabs-related internal code.
  • Typo: overrided -> overriden.
  • Debug. Switches in ConEmuC: /Args, /CheckUnicode, /ErrorLevel, /Result.
  • New environment variable ConEmuServerPID set during server init.
  • Issue 1505 : Fix attach of several ChildGui at the same time.
  • Issue 1214 : Support overtab clicks for activate/close/menu
  • Fix panel tab title blinking during edit/view opening.
  • Issue 436 : Do not lose recent tab (editor/viewer) history after cmd execution from Far.

New in ConEmu Build 140505 Alpha (May 6, 2014)

  • Limited logging of console contents.
  • Option ‘Inject ConEmuHk’ must be enabled to get that feature!
  • Only ‘Standard output’ will be logged (the same activity as processed with ‘ANSI X3.64’ processor). So, certain Windows console API functions will not be logged (Far Manager panels, for example).
  • You may choose folder for storing log-files, default is "%ConEmuDir%\Logs\".
  • Note! Default folder may be write-protected, if you've installed ConEmu to "Program Files". So, you may need to choose write-enabled folder.
  • Each console will share its own log-file, example: "ConEmu-YYYY-MM-DD-pPID.log".
  • So, if several processes will write to console output simultaneously, you may get unpredictable result in your log-file.
  • By default, logging is disabled.
  • ANSI. Fix ‘no-color’ on new line.
  • ANSI. Fix ‘bad color cell’ on EOL.
  • ANSI. Do not break "\r\n" in two physical writes.

New in ConEmu Build 140429 Alpha (May 6, 2014)

  • Issue 1557: Switch -new_console:u:"other_user:password" may lock the account of other_user (another way). Also, bad behavior of -cur_console reverted (15cff21 regression)
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140428 Alpha (Apr 30, 2014)

  • Shield was not set on ‘Restart’ button in ‘Recreate’ dialog.
  • github#5: Console was not started as admin when ‘Create new console’ dialog was skipped.
  • Don't hide row/col highlight on focus loose.
  • Issue 1557: Switch -new_console:u:"other_user:password" may lock the account of other_user. In some cases starting new console without directly specified working directory (with -cur_console:d:... for example) may lock other_user account with reason ‘Bad password count exceeded’.
  • Issue 1516: ConEmu fails to duplicate root when cmd.exe was catched as ‘Default terminal’.

New in ConEmu Build 140422 Alpha (Apr 30, 2014)

  • GuiMacro. Sleep(Milliseconds). Because it is processed inside GUI process, Milliseconds are limited to 10000 (10 sec) max.
  • GuiMacro. Break() for Ctrl+C and Break(1) for Ctrl+Break. However, these function may fails in some cases (in RealConsole for example). Also, they are processed by Windows asynchronously, so you may need to Sleep(ms) after them if your want to print("something") to console after.
  • Clipboard use optimization - RClick Paste may fails sometimes.
  • Fix hyperlinks underlining errors (c31f3cb regression).

New in ConEmu Build 140416 Alpha (Apr 17, 2014)

  • Don't use hooks inside shell started from mintty (6b514d0 regression).
  • Issue 1553 : Mouse button actions modifier was not saved (vkCTSVkAct).
  • Issue 1556 : Ctrl+L not working in cygwin.

New in ConEmu Build 140414 Preview (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1544 : Cygwin ssh forking fails.

New in ConEmu Build 140412 Preview (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1532 : Show only critical status messages in the top-left terminal corner.
  • Issue 1534 : Use About() and Settings() GuiMacro for system hotkeys (Win+Alt+A, Win+Alt+P, Win+Alt+K). System hotkeys are fixed by design. But user can use GuiMacro to open About or Settings dialogs. Moreover, if you need to open dialogs with special page activated (if you need some page often).
  • Add ConEmuEnvironment#Export_variables link to About dialog (Console tab).
  • Issue 1546 : Mark/copy with mouse appears very slow in some cases.

New in ConEmu Build 140404 Preview (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Show 1-based console coordinates in the status bar (was 0-based).
  • Don't show size of the console visible rect by default in the status bar.
  • Win8. Failed to set console width less than 19 after Ctrl+Shift+O (in progress).

New in ConEmu Build 140403 Alpha (Apr 16, 2014)

  • Issue 1527 : Regression 140327. PowerShell was not hooked.
  • Issue 1528 : Infinite mouse messages ChildGui
  • ConEmu in some cases.
  • Settings Main page redesigned.
  • Change clink homepage url, update ConEmu\clink\Readme.txt.
  • Remove possible deadlock after closing AltServer.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140327 Alpha (Mar 28, 2014)

  • Console. Increase max buffer height to 32766 lines.
  • Issue 1504 : Parenthesis issue in csudo.cmd.
  • Ensure Cmd_Autorun.cmd always returns errorlevel==0.
  • Quotation marks changes in Cmd_Autorun.cmd (possible parenthesis issues?)
  • Use LdrDllNotification (Vista+). Might speed up hooks and set up hooks before DllMain called (LoadLibrary).
  • Ctrl+O Far macro was failed in some cases - Shell("new_console:b").
  • Issue 1509 : Arg parsing failed for ‘/dir "C:\" /single’ (01ed281 regression).
  • Allow string arguments of -new_console to be resetted. For example, you are running task with "/icon nice.ico" in Task parameters. You may reset it in task commands if you are running several tabs at once
  • Hook mouse_event and SendInput API.
  • Allow "/icon" task parameter to change tab icon too.
  • Restrict "/icon" task parameter to change already started instance window icon.
  • New ConEmu.exe switch ‘/FontDir "YourDir"’ allows to register fonts from several specified folders
  • Issue 1258 : Ctrl+BackSpace delete words to the left including spaces.
  • Actually, not only spaces are taken to account: ‘>])}$.,/\"’.
  • About dialog -new_console fixes.
  • No need to unset hooks if our process is to be force killed by TerminateProcess (minor speed up).
  • Issue 1512 : Warn on invalid prefix-switch in task command.
  • Warn on invalid switches in task parameters.
  • RClick on Close button - minimize to TSA again (02bf905 regression).
  • Don't hook LoadLibraryW if possible. Till now LoadLibrary will be hooked in:
  • Windows2k, WindowsXP - all processes
  • Far Manager (far.exe, far32.exe, far64.exe)
  • Vim xterm arrow key lags happen sometimes. When Vim was switched to xterm mode, ConEmu sends corresponding xterm ESC-sequences instead of simple VK_xxx keypresses. Sometimes Vim don't catch whole sequence before any other event occures. For example, you press Right arrow and Vim does nothing before you just move mouse over console.
  • Issue 1511 : Url was not detected after ‘port’: "http://example:8080/TestTest/test?test=test".
  • Issue 1516 : Duplicate root failed for consoles started from TaskMgr via Default terminal feature.
  • Consider console is to be started hidden if start X/Y==32767 (Hooks).
  • Tooltip msg fix.
  • Quake settings. Name ‘Cascade’ as ‘Centered’, enable ‘Apply’ on change.
  • New option ‘Retard inactive panes’ on Features page. There is already ‘Sleep in background’ option which retard ConEmu window and its tabs when ConEmu is minimized/inactive. New option ‘Retard inactive panes’, disabled by default, retard inactive but visible split-panes in the active ConEmu window.
  • Issue 1518 : Remove delay before being able interact with quake style console after slide-down.
  • Wheel was not working while ConEmu's internal text selecting in Far.
  • Issue 823: Out of screen (upper border) selected text was not copied to clipboard.
  • Fix wrong hotkey for menu item ‘Close except active’.
  • Issue 1100: Don't show our scrollbar while GuiChild is visible.
  • Allow RealConsole scrolling while GuiChild is hidden.
  • Fix position of ChildGui (cut more pixels of the child frame).
  • Fix position of ChildGui (chrome.exe, firefox.exe).
  • ChildGui. Some applications can ‘disable’ Maximize button but they are still ‘resizeable’.
  • Issue 1282: PortableApps. Seamless run of paf-applications, console like tcc.exe or GUI like KiTTY.
  • Tab icon was not initialized properly if executable file was not in %PATH%.
  • Many internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140310 Alpha (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Issue 1498 : Prettify update confirmation dialogs.
  • Indeterminated taskbar status during update confirmation.
  • ConEmu's debugger was failed to start on elevated consoles.
  • Internet errors was not displayed sometimes during update.
  • Workaround for ssh crash when third-party thread terminated before ssh init finished.
  • Issue 1502 : GuiMacro new window transparency functions.
  • Show actual (active/inactive) transparency value in status bar.
  • Issue 1042: Quake, return focus to window which was active before showing ConEmu.

New in ConEmu Build 140304 Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Issue 1490: Fix crash on ANSI scrolling sequences.
  • Issue 1491: Don't erase customized directories when updating ConEmu PortableApps.
  • Overflow of internally registered windows messages.
  • AnsiDbg. Send predefined *.ans files to srv by Ctrl+1/2/3.
  • Overwrite file confirmation in SaveAs dialog
  • ‘Import...’ button in the Settings dialog.
  • Note! Export AND Import settings (xml files) now works with unnamed (.Vanilla) configuration to unify settings exchange.

New in ConEmu Build 140302 Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Regression 131211. (Issue 158) ConEmu PanelView was not updated after panel change.
  • Internal. AnsiDebugger added to src folder.
  • Regression 140227. "-GuiMacro:0" was executed in the first tab but not an active one.
  • GUI child application fails to start inside ConEmu if ‘tab’ startup command begins with "set", "chcp", "title" (processed by ConEmuC before starting shell). Than, following GUI executable was started outside of ConEmu window.
  • More logging of Mouse Wheel events
  • Wheel over inactive mintty pane unexpectedly scrolls active pane below too.

New in ConEmu Build 140227 Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Don't unlock working directory until ConEmu initialization finished. So, behavior of "-loadcfgfile" and "-savecfgfile" changed. If you specify xml file without path, if will be searched in the working (ConEmu.exe startup) directory, but not in the ConEmu.exe folder.
  • In some cases Tab labels was not updated with console titles.
  • Switch "-NoCloseConfirm" described in the About dialog.
  • Don't highlight row/col during any popup menus (system, tab, etc.)
  • Issue 1444: Put focus to left/right/top/bottom split was not worked as expected.
  • Result of "ConEmuC.exe -GuiMacro:0" was not printed to StdOut.
  • Don't try to export "ConEmuMacroResult" when "ConEmuC.exe -GuiMacro:0" was called.
  • Fix "ConEmuC.exe -GuiMacro:PID|HWND" to exec macro in the exact instance or tab/split.
  • Colorization test in "ConEmuC.exe /CHECKUNICODE".
  • Wrong startup directory was displayed in console if startup command fails.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140225 Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Log Lock/Unlock/Logoff events.
  • GuiMacro. Keys("Combo1"[,"Combo2"[,...]]). Combo syntax is mostly similar to AutoHotKey syntax: [Mod1[Mod2[Mod3]]]Key. Where ‘Mod’ may be: ^ - LCtrl, >^ - RCtrl, ! - LAlt, >! - RAlt, + - Shift. For example, if you want to ‘Ctrl+/’ post ‘Ctrl+_’ - use macro: Keys("^_").
  • Support "\b", "\xFF" and "\xFFFF" in GuiMacro strings. Hexadecimal parser stops on first NON hexadecimal character. So, avoid ambiguous strings like "\x05five", this will be parsed as two strings "\x05f" and "ive"
  • Support more that one string argument in Paste and Print GuiMacro functions. All strings will be concatenated before pasting into console.
  • Command line switch "ConEmu.exe /NoCloseConfirm" to disable confirmation of ConEmu's window closing.
  • Issue 1488: Ctrl+Shift+O fails in ‘Cmd_Autorun’ consoles.

New in ConEmu Build 140223 Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Hook abnormal termination of child processes (cygwin, mintty, vim, etc.)
  • Issue 713: Far. After ConsoleDetach, 1st console does not work correctly.

New in ConEmu Build 140220 Alpha (Feb 21, 2014)

  • Issue 1477: Fix Far panels detection (No column titles and No sort letter).
  • Many changes within "-new_console" and "-cur_console" switches processor.
  • Allow multiple quoted switches in one -new_console:d:"C:\My folder":t:"My title"
  • Simple switches may be separated too: -new_console:c:b:a
  • Issue 1354 : Switches will not be processed AFTER ConEmu's executables, read more in wiki
  • Internal refactoring (allow ‘concatenate’ or ‘apply’ them correctly) and unit tests.
  • Issue 1478: Allow ChildGui activation with LClick.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140216b Alpha (Feb 18, 2014)

  • Fix crash after resizing ConEmu window in some cases.

New in ConEmu Build 140214 Alpha (Feb 18, 2014)

  • RClick on Max caption button - Fullscreen switch.
  • Restore default split mouse hover activation timeout to 500ms.
  • Pressing Alt+F4 enexpectedly close all ConEmu's tabs instead of active (PuTTY) only
  • Support "title" directive in Tasks and cmdline. Note! "title" is useless with most of shells like cmd, powershell or Far! You need to change title within your shell!
  • cmd /k title Your title
  • powershell -noexit -command "$host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle='Your title'"
  • Add ‘Tasks’ page to the ‘About’ dialog.
  • Fix caption icon in the close confirmation TaskDialogIndirect.
  • Force show icon in the TSA if taskbar icon is hidden (‘Desktop’ and ‘Quake’ modes).
  • Fix ‘Intelligent selection’ conditions
  • Don't use in Far Manager viewers
  • Use in ‘Terminated’ console state
  • Optional ‘Use existing ConEmu window’ with Default terminal feature.
  • New checkbox on the ‘Default term’ Settings page
  • Optional switch "-new_console:N"
  • Far. Sometimes scrolling (buffer) was not removed after command finished.
  • Optimize loading Far plugin (ConEmu.dll). Occasionally assertion box was appeared.
  • ConEmuC: CheckResources started
  • ConEmu ?????? [??].??: CreateFile(\\.\pipe\ConEmuPlugin????) failed, code=0x00000002, Timeout
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140205 Alpha (Feb 6, 2014)

  • Was not working: "set ConEmuFakeDT=2013-11-30".
  • New status line cursor info format: ‘(col,row) height [V|H]’.
  • Show one info col instead of three cursor columns (by default).
  • Issue 1431: Auto disable ‘Desktop’ mode when enabling ‘Quake’ mode.
  • Long console output may fails in Windows 8 (Far Manager).
  • Use static link of user32 in ConEmuHk.
  • After "cmd -new_console" from "far /w" prompt, buffer was disabled unexpectedly.
  • Issue 1464 : Takes care of system ‘Active window tracking’ on 3rd-state of ‘Activate split on mouse over’.
  • Issue 1165 : Scrolling console buffer with mouse wheel in Far only works when mouse is over scroll bar.

New in ConEmu Build 140203 Alpha (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Vim fails to react for window size change in the xterm terminal mode.

New in ConEmu Build 140124 Preview (Jan 25, 2014)

  • Checkbox 'New window' in create dialog was ignored in 'Single instance mode'
  • Wrong error message was displayed if empty passwords are disabled in system policy
  • Use 'Fade when inactive' option for inactive splits
  • Ansi xterm 24-bit fails for RED=0..15

New in ConEmu Build 140117 Alpha (Jan 18, 2014)

  • New option ‘Show progress indicator’ on ‘Task bar’ page.
  • GuiMacro. Some function must be executed in main thread.
  • Issue 1434 : GuiMacro ‘Status(1,"TEST")’ toggles statusbar.
  • GuiMacro. Allow one-word string arguments with no quotas (powershell-style).
  • GuiMacro. ‘Flash’ function allows to flash taskbar icon and/or window caption.
  • Count: the number of times to flash the window
  • Fix. ANSI. Wrong behavior of 'ESC [ n L' (VIM & xterm256)

New in ConEmu Build 140116 Preview (Jan 18, 2014)

  • Also show ANSI color indexes on ‘Colors’ settings page.
  • Donate/flattr buttons in the ‘About’ dialog.
  • Some more logging information to LogFiles.
  • Issue 1430 : Progress indicator for aria2 downloader (thecybershadow).
  • Tab Admin shield/suffix. Separate settings, Shield was not be able to disabled.
  • Tab templates. Avoid adding sequential spaces (e.g. if some vars was empty).
  • New tab template var: ‘%a’ - admin suffix.
  • Admin suffix must be enabled on ‘Tabs’ settings page;
  • If ‘%a’ was not specified explicitly, suffix appended at the end;
  • If you don't need suffix in tab at all - clear ‘suffix’ edit box.
  • Apply ‘Skip words from title’ to admin console titles, but not tabs only.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140109 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Palette was failed to be set properly for elevated consoles.
  • Elevated console was hidden even if "ConEmu /visible" was called.
  • Allow '-'style arguments in ConEmu.exe cmd line.
  • Default terminal. Remove real console flickering when starting console app from explorer.
  • Issue 1340: Alternatively attached console was closed by Ctrl+C.
  • Macro Shell("new_console:a") allowed.
  • Update/fix 'RunAsAdmin' state on tab after attach.
  • Crash if user cancelled console creation in some cases.
  • Memory leak if user cancelled console creation in some cases.
  • Excess logon dialog when running "cmd -new_console:u::".
  • Win v6.1: conhost PID detection improved.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 140106 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Default terminal fixes.
  • Don't show excess paths and quotes in title.
  • Small memory leak while restaring tab on Win7.
  • Don't force ConEmuC64 as root server when using "set" before command.
  • Support "chcp ansi|oem|utf-8|
  • " internally by ConEmuC.
  • Support '-'style arguments in ConEmuC.
  • Issue 1421: PowerShell coloursed prompt displayed incorrectly.
  • Downloader. New internal commands, default to async, and new switches:
  • otimeout - Our wait for async operation timeout
  • timeout - WinInet data receive timeout
  • async Y|N - Turn On/Off asynchronous mode.

New in ConEmu Build 140104 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • All internet code (Updater) moved to ConEmuCD.dll. Side effect - you may download from http/https/ftp without any external tools.
  • Fix DirectoryExist for symlinks.
  • Allow to choose another shell or directory if console startup failed. For example, if your saved named task was created for some directory, which was deleted at some moment. ConEmu will suggest to show standard 'Create new console' dialog where user can change command and directory.
  • ConEmu will check directory existence before creating new tab. If you type wrong startup directory for new process in the 'Create new console' dialog, ConEmu will check it, show warning and allows to change it to smth better.
  • Issue 1410 : Fix unexpected SetCurrentConsoleFontEx from PowerShell.
  • Issue 1415 : Some console output of ConEmuC was not able to redirecting.
  • More information in "ConEmuC /?".
  • Allow "ConEmuC /AUTOATTACH /GHWND=0x???" - attach to exact ConEmu instance.

New in ConEmu Build 131225 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Issue 1406 : Sources was converted to utf-8 (mostly by Rick Sladkey).
  • GCC makefiles and source fixes.
  • DllMain was not called when compiled with GCC.
  • InjectHookDLL cause crash in hooked process when compiled with GCC.
  • File ".editorconfig" added into "src" folder.
  • Issue 1404: Workaround for deadlock between AltServerStop and ReloadFullConsoleInfo (by Rick Sladkey).
  • Issue 1404: Fix overlapped I/O for ReadFile like TransactNamePipe (by Rick Sladkey).
  • Issue 1405 : Don't wait for overlapped event unless the API assures us that I/O is pending (by Rick Sladkey).
  • If no desktop dir is available - save dump into %TEMP%.
  • Some internal code changes.

New in ConEmu Build 131223 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Issue 1379: Disable fade in effect on startup.
  • Console font dialog - 'restart may be required'.
  • Issue 1402 : Prevent RM_ALTSERVER mode from warping CurrentDirectory (by Rick Sladkey).
  • New ANSI sequences supported:
  • "ESC [ n X" - erase n characters
  • "ESC [ > c" --> Report "ESC > 67 ; build ; 0 c"
  • "ESC [ c" --> Report "ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c"
  • "ESC [ 5 n" -> Report status as "CSI 0 n" (OK)
  • "ESC [ 6 n" -> Report Cursor Position as "ESC [ row ; col R"
  • "ESC [ 1 8 t" --> Report the size of the text area in characters as "ESC [ 8 ; height ; width t"
  • "ESC [ 1 9 t" --> Report the size of the screen in characters as "ESC [ 9 ; height ; width t"
  • "ESC [ 2 1 t" --> Report window’s title as "ESC ] l title ESC \"
  • ANSI xterm256. When line was wrapped (long prompt or output)
  • extended atributes was not shifted properly;
  • rest of line was printed char-by-char.
  • Issue 1403: Seamless start with default ConEmu config in WinPE.
  • Ready to create MiniDump in WinPE.
  • Try to use 'Courier New' as border font if 'Lucida Console' fails
  • Issue 1399 : Angular quotation marks in the English translation.
  • Issue 1400 : Environment variables dont't work in update path to 7zip
  • Portable_Test.cmd - creates simple one-file portable executable using WinRar.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 131219 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • ConEmuHk linked with flags /DYNAMICBASE:NO /FIXED:NO /BASE:0x7E110000.
  • GuiMacro Transparent & HighlightMouse described in the About dialog.
  • Hide cursor during mouse-selection, show half-horz cursor during keyboard selection.
  • Copy, Detect line ends. Allow one space on the next line beginning.
  • Some hotkeys descriptions was changed
  • Highlighting: hyperlinks and compiler errors (FarGotoEditor modifier);
  • Highlighting: Switch «Highlight row under mouse cursor».
  • ANSI & xterm256 improvements:
  • Try to deal with ReadLine scrolling and xterm256;
  • Clear extened attributes after cmd's cls.
  • "ESC [ 0 m" set original colors instead of gray-on-black; «Original» means colors was set in console before first ANSI color change (first write to console actually) in the current application (e.g. cmd.exe).
  • Addons\git.cmd -> Addons\git_sample.cmd.
  • Some internal and debug changes.

New in ConEmu Build 131215 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Issue 1362 : Hotkeys for inc/dec transparency
  • GuiMacro: Transparency(,)
  • Cmd = 0, Value = 40..255 (255==Opaque)
  • Cmd = 1, Value =
  • Hotkeys (not assigned by default) for inc/dec transparency by 20 'points'.
  • Issue 1391 : Extended fonts not applied to first visible line of buffer (by rick.sladkey).
  • Highlighting row/col under mouse cursor.
  • Checkboxes on 'Highlight' settings page.
  • GuiMacro HighlightMouse([,]). Affect ACTIVE console only.
  • HighlightMouse(0) switch off/row/col/row+col/off/...
  • otherwise
  • What: 1 - row, 2 - col, 3 - row+col
  • Act: 0 - off, 1 - on, 2 - switch (default)
  • New hotkey Apps+L switch row highlighting: HighlightMouse(1)
  • Some bugfixes
  • Many changes in mark/paste/highlighting setting pages.
  • Page 'Mark & Paste' renamed to 'Mark/Copy'
  • New pages 'Paste' and 'Highlight'
  • Group 'Mouse button actions' moved to 'Controls' page
  • Group 'Copying format' added to 'Mark/Copy' page
  • Group 'Pasting text behavior' moved to 'Paste' page
  • Group 'Hyperlinks and compiler errors' moved to 'Highlight' page
  • Issue1392 . Allow drop simple text from other apps (browsers, e.g.)
  • Cmd line parsing, quotation issues.
  • Internal changes. ConEmuHk, ShellProcessor.
  • Internal changes. RealConsole: isGuiForceConView, ResetVarsOnStart
  • Internal changes. Allow DontEnable in MainThread only

New in ConEmu Build 131211 (Dec 12, 2013)

  • For life simplification and remove excess 'cmd' from process tree, ConEmu will process 'set' commands internally (ConEmuC) before starting root process. Example:
  • set term=msys & "set PATH=C:\Program Files\GIT\bin;%PATH%" & powershell
  • Issue 1387 . Garbage in console if UpRight/DownLeft background placement.
  • Internal changes. Support variable length in NextArg.
  • Internal changes. ExtendedConsole was added to exclusion list of ConEmuHk.
  • Internal changes. gbDontEnable -> DontEnable::isDontEnable.

New in ConEmu Build 131205 (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Some fixes in pipe processing.
  • Some codeanalyze fixes.
  • Some more debug info in MPipe.h.
  • IsConEmu.cmd updated, returns errorlevel 0,1,2.
  • Issue 881 : ConEmuHk causes IBM Java applications to crash.
  • Issue 1236 : Far Manager. Pathname not fit in left panel causes right mouse click failure.
  • Issue 1358 : Allow multiple selections in 'Attach To' window.

New in ConEmu Build 131125 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Issue 1367 : ConEmuArgs, ConEmuBaseDir, ConEmuConfig, ConEmuDir was not initialized.
  • Excess confirmations when closing Far consoles.

New in ConEmu Build 131124 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Crash fix on tabs closing.
  • Initialize predefined palettes with "/reset" or "/basic" switches.
  • Setupper. Featute name «clink readme» and «Show git branch».
  • Issue1354. Checkbox «Process new_console switches».
  • New possible env values "ConEmuHooks=OFF,NOARG".
  • Clear "ConEmuFakeDT", "ConEmuHooks" on ConEmu.exe startup.
  • ConEmuRelyDT renamed to ConEmuFakeDT.
  • Some fixes in CSettings::GetString.
  • Settings, FarMacro. Edits -> ComboBoxes.
  • Contributors. ForNeVeR.
  • Fix stack overflow using #Close(0) in SafeFarClose.
  • Internal. Storing event handles in ConEmuHk.DllMain.
  • Internal. Some changed for Wine (dwLayoutName).

New in ConEmu Build 131119 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • (Pull#2, ForNeVeR) ConEmuBg: Fit background text width.
  • VConGroup.SetConsoleSizes fails on more than 2 splits.
  • Fix close confirmation msg on WinXP.
  • Default button set to Cancel in Assertion dialog.
  • Issue 1345: Menu shortcuts &Edit and Sett&ings.

New in ConEmu Build 131114 (Nov 16, 2013)

  • Issue 1333: Internal changes in WndProc, GWLP_USERDATA is not used anymore.
  • Minor fix in "ConEmuC /export". Don't try to export to (a) direct parent of ConEmuC.exe process and (b) conhost.exe.
  • Issue 581: Task "/dir" switch was ignored when starting second tab.
  • Far Manager macros settings are moved to «Far macros» page.
  • Issue 1325 (Neverthness): ConEmuBg Far Plugin: VolumeFree may be used in Background.xml.
  • ConEmuBg: Force check xml file on plugin enabled.
  • GuiMacro: WindowMaximize() - maximize window by width (Cmd==1) or height (Cmd==2). Same as doubleclick on the window frame edges.
  • New hotkeys on «Keys & Macro» page: Maximize width and Maximize height.
  • Issue 1329: Support env.vars in the "/icon" task argument when creating Jump lists.
  • Issue 1165: Scroll console (don't send wheel events) if console mode has ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE.
  • New Environment variable "ConEmuRelyDT". That will cheat system and local current time for console processes. Use carefully! Console applications will think that time was freezed!

New in ConEmu Build 131107 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Now it is possible to execute GuiMacro from outside of ConEmu window. Would remind that you may call several macros, delimited with semicolon, in a time.
  • Syntax: ConEmuC /GUIMACRO[:PID|HWND]
  • PID is a ConEmu.exe process identifier. HWND is a %ConEmuHWND%.
  • Also, you may call "/GUIMACRO:0" to affect first found instance.
  • Split created with command "cmd -new_console:bsV" was left invisible.
  • Compatibility section for Windows 8.1 added to the ConEmu manifest.
  • Issue 1277 : Far Manager shows «Copy» in the window title instead of panel path.
  • Issue 1312: Default Terminal: Visual Studio 2013 console window not hooked.
  • Issue 1317 : Task GuiMacro was ignored directory parameter.
  • Issue 1319 : Crashes as soon as opened.

New in ConEmu Build 131105 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • Issue 1312 : Visual Studio 2013 console window not hooked
  • Regression. «Always on top» was not cleared after exiting FullScreen mode (Alt+Enter).
  • Issue 218: Far Manager panels flickering while maximize/restore.

New in ConEmu Build 131103 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Issue 1079 : Console hangs when running PHP console scripts.
  • Issue 1195 : Invalid size locking region was used after resizing window when Far is active.
  • Issue 1196 : ConEmu's Far plugin language resources.
  • Issue 1300 : Failed (hanged) while closing Far Manager using «Safe Far close macro» in some cases.
  • Issue 1301 : Clink initialization method was changed.
  • Issue 1307: Some resize fixes in Quake mode.
  • Issue 1308 : Copy text without HTML formatting by default.
  • GuiMacro: Copy([,]). User may specify format regardless of current setting (choosed from menu).
  • 0: plain text, not formatting; 1: copy HTML format; 2: copy as HTML.
  • New hotkeys (active while selection is present), Ctrl+C (plain text), Ctrl+Shift+C (HTML format) and unassigned for (as HTML).
  • Regression: Task hotkeys was broken.
  • On the first run (with Fast configuration dialog) task list will be filled with some predefined shells found on PC.
  • File "AnsiColors16t.ans" was updated with "How to use ANSI" recommendations.
  • Batch file "SetEscChar.cmd" provided for use with cmd.exe scripts.
  • Issue 1308 : Don't use copy with HTML formatting (by default).
  • Issue 367 : New background placements - Center, Stretch-Fit, Stretch-Fill.
  • Debugging purposes: new ConEmu.exe switches "/nomacro" and "/nohotkey".
  • cmd.exe users: option «Support UNC Paths» on «ComSpec» allows "cd" to network location. This works in prompt only! And only in newly created consoles after enabling feature.
  • Example: cd \\server\share\folder

New in ConEmu Build 131026 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Showing Task hotkeys in the start menu (Win+N, [+] drop down).
  • Task hotkeys may be configured on «Keys & Macro» settings page, too.
  • Regression. Changes in «Default terminal» hooked applications was ignored.
  • Shift+Home and Shift+End start text selection if «Start selection with Shift+Arrows» is enabled.
  • Trim trailing «.,;» from hyperlinks (Ctrl+LClick).

New in ConEmu Build 131025 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Issue 1304 : Fail to Run history item from dropdown menu.
  • Issue 1298 : ConEmu may crash when starting some incorrect tasks.
  • Issue 1269: Win+Left, Win+Right once more.
  • GuiMacro: SetOption("AlwaysOnTop",Value). Where Value: 2 - switch AlwaysOnTop, 1 - enable, 0 - disable.
  • Issue 675 : When both "Reset selection on input" and "any key" are checked selection was dropped when Shift (e.g.) was released.
  • Issue 685: Allow using simple modifiers for text selection (Shift, Alt, Control).
  • Issue 836 : Allow to set tasks hotkey.
  • Anyone still using WinXP? «Enter TEXT fullscreen mode, when available» hotkey is available. This is a global hotkey, you may (try to) press it even if ConEmu has no focus.

New in ConEmu Build 131020 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1267 : Chinese message of previous command crash.
  • Issue 1291 : Python fails to print string sequence with ASCII character followed by Chinese character.
  • Issue 1292 : While selection is active, Shift-Home/Shift-End keys extend selection to line begin/end.
  • Issue 1293 : Regression. "-new_console:d:" and whitespace in
  • = parser issue.
  • Issue 1289 : Regression. No background image at start.

New in ConEmu Build 131017 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • New switch "-new_console:W:Background" allows set background image per tab or split. Option «Background image» must be enabled in main settings (main image path may be empty).
  • Regression. When prompting for password (-new_console:u:User) command field was not filled.
  • Internal changes of "-new_console" parser.
  • Minor internal changes in closing procedure.
  • About dialog, "-new_console" page was added. May be called from Tasks setup ('?' button in title bar and click on tasks edit field).
  • Issue 823: Shift+left mouse selection does not select above visible windows (has to scroll buffer up).

New in ConEmu Build 131015 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Environment variables are allowed in tab icon paths.
  • Issue 1275 : ConEmu window was restored from TSA unexpectedly after RClick-Esc.
  • Menu item «Store history» in the create new console dialog (right-click on title bar).
  • Minor changes in «New console» dialog.
  • Environment export was not working in Far Manager. Example:
  • vcvarsall.bat x86 & ConEmuC /export=CON
  • Regression: crash of ConEmuC while expanding environment variables.

New in ConEmu Build 131010 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Support PortableApps.com folder structure from the box. No need for explicit '/LoadCfgFile "%PAL:DataDir%\settings\ConEmu.xml"'.
  • Issue 1274 : Hang on "cmd --new_console".
  • Switch "/icon" was ignored for startup task.
  • Trailing spaces was increased when used «Auto save/restore of opened tabs».
  • Issue 1275 : When minimized into TSA and all VCon are closed we need to restore and run new tab.
  • New color scheme:
  • "monokai>"
  • Issue 1277: Far Manager shows «DrawWND» in the window title instead of panel path.
  • Issue 1279 : Copy to clipboard fails if "Plain text only" is the active option.
  • New environment variables "ConEmuDrive" and "ConEmuWorkDrive".

New in ConEmu Build 131006 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • New option on «Startup» page: «Auto save/restore of opened tabs».
  • New environment variable "ConEmuWorkDir", it contains folder from where your shell was started. User may use it when starting shell, with «ConEmu Here» feature for example:
  • "C:\Program Files\Far Manager\far.exe" "!ConEmuWorkDir!"
  • «Default terminal» settings are moved to own page. «Integration» page contains only «ConEmu Here» and «ConEmu Inside».
  • After unregistering «ConEmu Here» or «ConEmu Inside» item drop down was refreshed but not edit fields.
  • Issue 1269: More debug logging of Win+Left/Win+Right.
  • Issue 1262 : ConEmu.Editor.lua bug.
  • Debug purposes: "/basic" and "/resetdefault" switch.

New in ConEmu Build 130929 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 714: Font size fixed when copying using CF_HTML formatting. You may choose from Edit submenu one of the following options:
  • Plain text only (don't copy HTML formatting);
  • Copy HTML format (text will be ready for pasting in Word, Outlook etc.);
  • Copy as HTML (you want RAW HTML? choose this option).
  • Send cursor keys to vim with xterm control sequences.

New in ConEmu Build 130928 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Default anti-aliasing method will be «ClearType» if it is turned on in your OS.
  • Infinite run loop when «Single instance» was ON and «Multiple consoles» was OFF.
  • GuiMacro: Close(8) - close all consoles.
  • New menu items in «Close or kill submenus»: «Close all consoles» and «Close except active».
  • Issue 714: Copying text to clipboard using CF_HTML formatting. May be disabled from Edit submenu (Copy HTML format).

New in ConEmu Build 130923 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1234 : Tasks menu changes (Win+N, button [+])
  • by default - does not expand to submenus, RClick on task - show submenu with task commands;
  • Shift+Click on [+] arrow - creates submenus for tasks, RClick on task - run all task commands;
  • also, user may set new hotkey for «Show create new console popup menu with task submenus».
  • Issue 1238 : Running particular command from task submenus - was ignored «/dir ...» switch.
  • Vista and higher: Default console font - «Consolas» (if ClearType is enabled in system).
  • Vista and higher: Default tab and status bars font - «Segoe UI».
  • Default font height (console, tab and status bars) takes into account monitor DPI (e.g. 150%).
  • Issue 1240 : Window size wasn't saved on exit (sizing by grip in status bar).

New in ConEmu Build 130921 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1242 : DPI aware dialogs and font inconsistency.
  • App distinct palette settings was ignored when starting GuiMacro: shell("new_console:In","powershell").
  • Crash in ConEmuC when attaching wide buffer consoles.
  • Some improvements on Default Terminal feature (to be continued).

New in ConEmu Build 130918 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1239 : Regression: commands with redirection fails in Far Manager.
  • Issue 1137 : Don't warn about Ctrl+Tab duplicate if internal Ctrl+Tab processing is disabled.
  • Regression: «Activate split on mouse over» was not working.
  • Issue 1125: Default terminal not activated when starting cmd from Windows 7 start menu Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

New in ConEmu Build 130917 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1211 : Redirection heuristic disabled. If one needs redirection in root command:
  • call "cmd /c your-command-line"
  • Issue 1228 : In some cases ConEmu fails to display DBCS characters with "ANSI X3.64" enabled. Need to rewrite ANSI processor... Temporary workaround was created.
  • Issue 1220 : When starting "far /co" plugin ConEmu background fails to initialize.
  • Issue 1230 : Far plugin ConEmu background stops viewer autoupdating.
  • When starting "far /w" plugin ConEmu background fails to draw icons.
  • You may force Far Manager background plugins to update using Far macro. This may be useful for minimizing lags after Ctrl-O, Ctrl-O for example.
  • Plugin.Call("4b675d80-1d4a-4ea9-8436-fdc23f2fc14b", 99)
  • Some clarifications in «ConEmu received wrong version packet» message.
  • Some fixes in padding painting.
  • Update Windows 7 jump list controls are moved to «Task bar» settings page.
  • Far Manager tab templates are moved to «Far Manager» settings page.

New in ConEmu Build 130913 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1229 : Special prefix symbols '>' and '*' (task item) was not stripped when starting new console from task menu.
  • Some changes in color palette processing.
  • New switch "-new_console:P:PaletteName" allows set fixed color palette for specified tab.
  • Example: ConEmu /cmd cmd -cur_console:P:^

New in ConEmu Build 130912 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Show icons in tab bar. By default, root application (your shell) icon is displayed. Also, you may specify any special icon when starting tab with -new_console switch.
  • New switch "-new_console:C:IconFile" set icon for a tab. Example:
  • ConEmu.exe /cmd C:\GIT\git-bash.bat -cur_console:C:C\GIT\etc\git.ico
  • Changes in «Win+N» popup menu (plus sign on toolbar). Tasks menu items are true submenu now. When task contains more than one item, «All task tabs» sub-item appears to run all task tabs. You may quickly run all task tabs with RightClick on Task menu item itself (don't wait for submenu appears). Also, if you define more than 10 tasks, all sequent tasks are available via «More tasks» submenus.
  • Default terminal: ConEmuHk.dll will be reloaded after updating to new ConEmu build (logoff/logon is not needed anymore).
  • Switch tabs by clicking over tab in fullscreen mode (actually, when caption is hidden).
  • Saving start command line history was disabled by default (130827). Enabled now.
  • Do you want to get your cmd.exe prompt bottom aligned? On ConEmu startup and after "cls"? It is possible, run this file as your shell
  • cmd.exe /k ClsEx.cmd

New in ConEmu Build 130827 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • New search sequence for ConEmu.xml file:
  • %APPDATA%\ConEmu.xml
  • %ConEmuBaseDir%\ConEmu.xml
  • %ConEmuDir%\ConEmu.xml
  • New user may choose settings storage location on the first start (Fast configuration dialog).
  • New option "SaveCmdHistory", may be changed via reg/xml configuration.
  • Issue 1210 : Don't reset default command specified with "/cmd" argument in Quake mode.
  • Wrong Quake position (top) when "Pad size" was set.
  • When running "-new_console:sVb" - "b" was ignored.
  • Issue 1090 : Win+Left/Right on three monitors once again. n prompt.

New in ConEmu Build 130822 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1195: Assertion.
  • Issue 1198: Crash when exporting xml configuration to read-only folder.
  • Split was erroneously activated by mouse hover while any menu (tab, system, etc.) was active.
  • Trying to search "msxml3.dll" in %PATH% when it is not available via COM and is not found in the ConEmu's folder.
  • Fails to typing japanese/chinese in the python prompt.

New in ConEmu Build 130815 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Issue 1183 : Sometimes Far x64 crashes on context menu.

New in ConEmu Build 130814 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Sometimes 0-size crash dump files were created.

New in ConEmu Build 130813a (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Issue 1193 : PowerShell: Get-Credential crashes. Bug appears in 130807.
  • ConEmu About dialog was broken.

New in ConEmu Build 130813 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Crashed sometimes with "ConEmu /log".

New in ConEmu Build 130812 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Issue 1191 : Due to Explorer bug (or weird feature?) ConEmu was launched instead of explorer from taskbar pinned library icon. Registry keys (related to "ConEmu here") will be fixed on ConEmu launch.
  • New option on "Features" page - "Exception handler (debug)". When checked - unhandled exception filter will be installed in alternative servers.

New in ConEmu Build 130809 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Issue 1179 : Can't disable text cursor blinking when ConEmu window is inactive.
  • conemu_ml: TCC fails while executing: ""F:\program files\take command\tcc.exe" /C "alias where" ".
  • Issue 1090: Tile left/right fails to move ConEmu window between monitors.

New in ConEmu Build 130808 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Issue 1181 : Activate pane by mouse over works now with GUI child applications.
  • Option "Activate split on mouse over" is disabled by default.
  • Internal log changing: "ConEmu /log /single" will affect existing instance.

New in ConEmu Build 130807 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Forbid Far Manager plugins to change window styles of ConEmu windows.
  • Some fixes in Far Manager command execution interceptor.
  • New color scheme: "".
  • New switch "-new_console:f" forces starting console active. May be useful when starting several consoles simultaneously. Example:
  • ConEmu.exe /cmdlist powershell -new_console:f ||| cmd -new_console:sH
  • Wrong size and pos of child GUI windows in split.
  • Hotkey «Close current tab» must close group when option «One tab per group» is enabled.
  • GuiMacro: Close(6) - close active tab or group, Close(7) - all active processes of the active group.
  • Activate pane by mouse over works now with GUI child applications.

New in ConEmu Build 130726 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • New option on "Status" page: "Use vertical padding". With unchecked you may use same status bar height and font as font in console
  • Provide "ConEmu Here" menu item for Windows 7 libraries. Have no sense for library root - select smth or open library folder
  • Crash when trying to put focus in bottom split while there was horizonal split only
  • Split to bottom and split to right hotkeys was messed up

New in ConEmu Build 130725 (Jul 26, 2013)

  • GuiMacro: new function
  • Split(,,)
  • Cmd=0, Horz=1..99, Vert=0: Duplicate active «shell» split to right, same as Shell("new_console:s50Hn")
  • Cmd=0, Horz=0, Vert=1..99: Duplicate active «shell» split to bottom, same as Shell("new_console:s50Vn")
  • Cmd=1, Horz=-1..1, Vert=-1..1: Move splitter between panes (aka resize panes)
  • Cmd=2, Horz=-1..1, Vert=-1..1: Put cursor to the nearest pane (preferred direction may be choosed).
  • New hotkeys: Apps+Shift+Arrows - resize splits, Apps+Arrows - put focus to next split.
  • Far 3 macro `"ConEmu.ShiftEnter.lua"` updated.

New in ConEmu Build 130722 (Jul 23, 2013)

  • Build number stored in xml-configuration file when saving settings.
  • Keys & Macros: "Drag ConEmu window by client area" renamed to "Move ConEmu window by dragging client area".
  • Settings->Mark & Paste: New option "Show IBeam cursor".
  • Issue 1152 : Hungs on wheel when "sreen per time" was choosed in mouse settings.
  • Issue ???: Don't resize real console until mouse button released (Far Manager still resized «on the fly»).
  • Issue 1141: Tab bar position fails after restoring ConEmu when «Auto show» (tabs) is selected.
  • Some more internal logging.

New in ConEmu Build 130708 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Far Macro "ConEmu.Editor.fml" was changed! Update your copies in MacroLib!
  • Issue 1126: ConEmu macros adopted for Far Manager 3 (tested in build 3502). New macros located in "%ConEmuBaseDir\Far3_lua". You need to copy selected files to your "�RPROFILE%\Macros\scripts" folder.
  • Right click on «Minimize» button hides ConEmu to TSA.
  • Issue 1123: "Close(5)" crashes.

New in ConEmu Build 130427 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Issue 1035, 1050: Keyboard layouts once more.
  • Issue 1047: Assertion on start file dragging.
  • Issue 1052 : New option «Show balloon help tooltips» on «Appearance» page.

New in ConEmu Build 130425 (Apr 26, 2013)

  • Issue 1040: Resize Far 3 panels macro error.
  • Issue 1035: Assertion on startup with some keyboard layouts (again).

New in ConEmu Build 130422 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • Issue 1035: Assertion on startup with some keyboard layouts.

New in ConEmu Build 130411 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Quit on close once again... If no opened consoles and cross clicking - ConEmu will terminates.
  • Issue 1014: "Extend Fonts" feature does not work (was locked to far.exe only).
  • Issue 1011 : Typo in installer.
  • Some more logging on keyboard input.
  • Allow to set tab templates without "%s" and "%n".
  • Far 3 (Lua) macro fails: Plugin.Call("bd454d48-448e-46cc-909d-b6cf789c2d65",1).
  • Issue 1020: Far 3 build 3277 supported.

New in ConEmu Build 130401 (Apr 2, 2013)

  • Some more internal diagnostics.
  • Gestures was not working on Windows x64.
  • ConEmu autorun command processor disables testing movie in flash.

New in ConEmu Build 130320 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • Issue 998: Default terminal may fails with error code 31 when starting debugging session in VS.

New in ConEmu Build 130319 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Issue 924: ConHost.exe crashed when maximizing.
  • Issue 974: «Leave ConEmu opened» blocks autoupdate.
  • Issue 990: Regression. ANSI processor was not initialized properly.
  • Issue 994: Regression. Clink loading failed.

New in ConEmu Build 130314 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • Issue 858 : Drop files to Far panels failed second time.
  • Some internal changes.

New in ConEmu Build 130313 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • Scrollbar was not appears/works when mouse was over padding on right edge.
  • Updated debug switch: "ConEmuC /debugtree
  • Flickering when starting Quake mode in TSA.
  • Drawing artefacts in the Status bar when resizing window.
  • Issue 969: Disabling "Multiple consoles in one ConEmu window" has no effect for "Default terminal".
  • The continue of "/debugtree".

New in ConEmu Build 130304 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Regression: GUI applications attach failed.
  • Issue 971 : Sending dead chars to child GUI applications.
  • Issue 972 : Regression: Duplicate root failed.

New in ConEmu Build 130228 (Mar 1, 2013)

  • Issue 964 : Duplicate Root shows an assert.
  • Issue 965 : Regression: stored fixed position for normal mode was ignored.
  • Settings->Info: showing "conhost.exe" in processes list for Windows 8 and higher.
  • New debug switch: "ConEmuC /debugtree

New in ConEmu Build 130227 (Feb 28, 2013)

  • Win8: Resize bugfix.
  • Issue 592: Quake-style autohide when clicking on taskbar.
  • Issue 888: Fixing MinTTY bug.
  • Issue 960: Sometimes ConEmu crashes while attaching external console (in progress).
  • Crash on GuiMacro WindowMaximize().

New in ConEmu Build 130223 (Feb 26, 2013)

  • Regression: Hotkey names not displayed on «Keys & Macro» page.
  • Some focus-switch hotkeys was not working.
  • Switch "/demote" for ConEmu.exe allows to run commands de-elevated via Task Sheduler.
  • AutoUpdate fixes.
  • Don't execute «ConEmu autorun» when console window is minimized (AutoUpdate issue).
  • «Duplicate root» fails sometimes with error code 0xC0000148.

New in ConEmu Build 130220 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Selection failed with buffer and «Freeze console» checked.

New in ConEmu Build 130219 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Quake activation/deactivation changes.
  • Internal processing of Win+Shift+Left/Right - move ConEmu window to previous/next monitor.
  • Update failes if full path to 7za.exe was not specified, but 7za.exe is located in %PATH%.
  • Exception in some cases running with "/Log2" switch.
  • Blinking when ConEmu starting minimized.
  • Update: Failed with proxy requires authentification.

New in ConEmu Build 130212 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Issue 912: Resize changes (Full Screen Does Not Allow Win+Shift+Arrow to Move Monitors).
  • Issue 937 : Drag&Drop once more (AIMP3).
  • Issue 938 : Double click for word selection stops working after a while.

New in ConEmu Build 130210 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Regression. Sometimes ConEmu.exe may crash on startup or quake-sliding.
  • Issue 932: Support UltraEdit decimal color format.

New in ConEmu Build 130205 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • Some improvements for «stress mode».
  • «Disabled» will be shown in «Keys & Macro» if specified action is disabled in settings.
  • Some bugfixes in Drag&Drop to Far panels from some storages.
  • Checking 7zip/WinRar existence before updating with 7z package.
  • Some changes in Status bar drawing.
  • Removed all references to std::vector.
  • Issue 885 : Attach of «As Administrator» console fixed.
  • Issue 886: Button «?» in the Title Bar of «Settings» dialog.
  • Minor changes of resources in «Settings» dialog.
  • Tooltips in «Settings» dialogs was not visible with this registry value:
  • [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"EnableBalloonTips"=0

New in ConEmu Build 130128 (Jan 29, 2013)

  • Refactoring of drag from Far Manager panels is started.
  • Changes in self-update procedure (elevation related).
  • Issue 899 : Default position of «Find text» dialog is upper-right corner.
  • Some changes in Drag&Drop items drawing.
  • Bugfixes for Reload/Reset Settings (buttons in «Settings» dialog).
  • Regression. Can't select some modifiers on «Keys & Macro» page in «Settings» dialog.
  • ConEmu.exe switch changed to avoid ambiguity. The following command line will run 3 tabs on ConEmu startup:
  • "ConEmu.exe /cmdlist cmd1 ||| cmd2 ||| cmd3".
  • Use Vista+ «Task dialog» for closing confirmation.

New in ConEmu Build 130120 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Settings in «Create new console» dialog was ignored for Tasks.
  • ConEmu Inside: You must use in Sync command "\1" and "\2" instead of "%1" and "%2". Also, you need to re-register menu items.
  • Vim 256 colors next try. Hope, it will be usable now. You need to configure your vimrc for enabling 256 colors.

New in ConEmu Build 130117 (Jan 18, 2013)

  • Excess console window flickering removed, when elevated tab is starting from elevated ConEmu.
  • Minor bugfix for «Single instance mode».
  • Quake animation when hide to TSA is disabled.
  • New switch "-new_console:w" turns on overwrite mode in console (for cmd, powershell, etc.)
  • One step closer to Vim 256 colors.

New in ConEmu Build 130116 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Issue 883 : PuTTY resize again.
  • Failed to change cursor «Blinking» for Inactive console.
  • Two new complemental hotkeys: «Set focus to ConEmu», «Set focus to child GUI application».
  • New item in tab menu: «Child system menu».
  • Removing excess redraws.
  • New switch: "ConEmu.exe /nosingle".
  • New option in «Fast configuration» and «Appearance» page: «Single instance mode (use existing window instead of running new instance)».
  • Minor changes in «Mark & Paste» page: new checkbox «copy before reset» instead of third state of «Reset selection on input».

New in ConEmu Build 130113 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Searching in «Settings» dialog now available. Type text in «Find» editbox (upper-left corner) and wait a little. You may continue search by pressing ">" button.
  • New option «Minimize on focus lose» on «Task bar» page. This is used only for «normal» style, «quake» style has separate option.
  • New switch. Now it is possible to start several tabs from the command line or shortcut without creating tasks.

New in ConEmu Build 130109 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Sometimes, trap occures when switching to tab which is in «closing state».
  • «Resize mark» renamed to «Size grip».
  • «Default terminal» fails to execute smth like "cmd /k copy aaa bbb".

New in ConEmu Build 130108 (Jan 9, 2013)

  • New «column» in Status bar - «Resize mark». You can change ConEmu size by dragging this «column» even when frame is hidden.
  • Starting shells takes into account paths defined in "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths".
  • Minor changes in starting root shell.
  • Toolbar: when last console is closed - ConEmu hides button with console number.
  • Toolbar buttons order was changed. [+] button on first place now.
  • Option «Hide caption of child GUI windows» is enabled by default.
  • Quake-style options moved to «Appearance» page.
  • New Quake-style option for animation duration. Any value between 0 and 2000 ms allowed.
  • Minor fixes in "/reset" switch.
  • Fixed focus of child GUI windows after ConEmu window restore or tab switch.

New in ConEmu Build 130105 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Issue 865 : Frame width option is broken.
  • Issue 864 : MiddleButtonClick on free tabbar area creates new tab.
  • Debug purposes: new ConEmuC argument /DEBUGEXE .
  • Due to large amount of ANSICON-related reports its loading will be blocked in ConEmu.

New in ConEmu Build 130104 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • Fixed Maximize/Restore regression. On Restore console size was not reduced.
  • Issue 806 : GVim started as "gvim --windowid !ConEmuBackHWND!" does not appears when switching tabs.
  • Fixed regression in hotkeys processing. Far received RAlt after Shift+Arrow.
  • Changes in Quake-style animation. Slide window when possible.
  • PuTTY dialogs appears beneath ConEmu window, then "Always on top" is checked.
  • xterm 24-bit colors supported. Same restrictions as xterm 256 colors.

New in ConEmu Build 130102 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • GuiMacro parser regression. Only one string argument was processed.

New in ConEmu Build 121227 (Dec 28, 2012)

  • New SystemMenu item: About -> Whats new (local, web).
  • Far 3 plugins updated to new API (some changes was missed).

New in ConEmu Build 121225 (Dec 28, 2012)

  • GuiMacro engine upgraded to avoid ambiguity. Now there are C-Strings and Verbatim-Strings.
  • C-Strings: allows backslash-escape sequences, for example print("\ecd /d \"C:\\Users\"\n")
  • Verbatim-Strings: allows using backslashes without escapes, for example print(@"cd /d ""C:\Users""")
  • Due to a bug(?) in MS DOM saving GuiMacro with (Esc), for example print("\eexit\n"), was caused erasing of ConEmu.xml file contents.
  • Group «Multi console» moved from «Tabs» page to «Appearance» page.
  • New option «Show buttons (toolbar) in tab bar» on «Appearance» page.
  • Issue 849 : Transparency breaks on startup when «Hide caption» is on.
  • Debug build. Menu item «Dump used memory blocks» in «Debug» submenu.
  • Some internal changes.
  • Some Attach from Far Plugin bugfixes.
  • «App distinct» updated with new Cursor controls.
  • Shift+Arrows may start selection (new option on «Mark & Paste» and «App distinct» pages). Shift+Left/Right starts text selection, Shift+Up/Down starts block selection.
  • Note! Shift+Arrows don't start selection in Far Manager.

New in ConEmu Build 121216 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • New predefined color palette
  • Sometimes console was not resized after maximizing ConEmu window. TechInfo: because of larget font size in real console. Auto-reducing automatically when possible.
  • Sometimes close console confirmation «Press Enter or Esc to close console» was bypassed.
  • Cursor setting page was redesigned. Inactive cursor may be fully configured now. To be continued, some combinations not works yet.
  • New settings page «Task bar». Some controls from «Appearance» page are here now.
  • New option «Auto hide ConEmu after last console close». Must be used together with «Leave ConEmu after last console close».
  • New ConEmu.exe switches:
  • /MinTSA - almost like combination of «/Min /TSA» but implies «Leave ...» and «Auto hide after last console close».
  • /SetDefTerm - forces installation of ConEmu as default terminal. May be useful with «/MinTSA /Detached».
  • Now you can turn on «Register on OS startup» for «Default terminal» feature. «Integration» page.

New in ConEmu Build 121211 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • Issue 824: Ctrl+BackSpace deletes word leftward to the cursor. Ignored in Far Manager. Hotkey is configurable. ATM takes care of «Change prompt with Left Click» third state.
  • Issue 707: ConEmu Inside: WinXP: Trying to show «Tip pane» automatically and close it after ConEmu exits.
  • Issue 838: New cursor type «Block». With «Color» checked ConEmu draws «empty» rectangle around cell under cursor.
  • Issue 842: Far 3 build 3000: [string "if APanel.Left Keys("Tab") end"]:1: 'then' expected near 'Keys'.
  • Some resize bugfixes.

New in ConEmu Build 121206 (Dec 7, 2012)

  • Timeout for downloading files (Auto-Update) increased to 180 seconds.
  • Issue 743: Sometimes Auto-Update fails via proxy.
  • Refactoring of menus processing.
  • Shell style Drag&Drop allows drops into inactive panes (split-screen). To be more exact pane will be activated on drag-over.
  • Sometimes «Quake-style slide down» shows window without sliding.
  • New file in ConEmu folder "TypeBuildErrors.cmd". This may be used for colorization errors and warnings in the compiler outputs.
  • Some more information with "/log2".
  • Issue 834: Too large FPS while using Far 2 truemod.
  • Redesign of «Mark & Paste» settings page.

New in ConEmu Build 121128 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Some changes in console server & ExtendedConsole.dll.
  • -new_console:z
  • «Default terminal» - more flexible:
  • active config name used;
  • close confirmation configurable;
  • don't inject hooks configurable;
  • take care about started with debugging;
  • still available after GUI was closed;
  • "-new_console:z" may be used when you need to force real console instead of replacing as «default terminal».
  • Issue 828 : Auto-hidden taskbar and maximized ConEmu without Caption.

New in ConEmu Build 121125 (Nov 26, 2012)

  • GCC warnings and errors.
  • Empty passwords are allowed when «Run as user» (if they are allowed by local policy of course).
  • When «Run as user» trying to use %USERPROFILE% instead of "System32".

New in ConEmu Build 121121 (Nov 22, 2012)

  • Settings -> Keys & Macro. Checkbox «Hide unassigned» temporarily hides from list actions and macros without hokeys.
  • Issue 700 : WinXP, Default history buffers count too small.

New in ConEmu Build 121119 (Nov 20, 2012)

  • Bugfix. 10 sec delay when starting Quake-style or "/single" ConEmu.
  • Apps+Tab and Apps+Shift+Tab switches between visible split-panes.
  • New item in tab popup menu: Terminate -> Active group. Also available from System menu -> Active console.
  • New hotkey (unassigned by default) for close of active group

New in ConEmu Build 121118 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • For debug purposes. User may define environment variable "ConEmuReportExe". ConEmuHk (when it is injected in the process with defined name) will show message box. It is right moment to take memory dump of this infiltrated process. For example (for cmd.exe command prompt):
  • set ConEmuReportExe=sh.exe
  • "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i
  • Issue 811: Unable to change Highlight & goto shortcut.
  • When «Don't close ConEmu on last console close» is on it was impossible to close empty ConEmu window.
  • Split key macros (default as Ctrl+Shift+O & Ctrl+Shift+E) works now like «Duplicate root...» menu item.
  • Settings page «Status bar» redesigned: two listboxes (available and selected) instead of checkboxes.
  • Issue 814 : highlight & goto Far Manager macro error bugfix.
  • New switch: "-new_console:t:tabname". Allows rename new created tab.
  • GuiMacro: Tab(10,1) and Tab(10,-1) cycle switches visible split-panes.
  • Issue 818: More DBCS console bugfixes.

New in ConEmu Build 121109 (Nov 10, 2012)

  • Fast access to «Keys & Macro» (hotkeys) settings page. Win+Alt+K or SystemMenu -> Help -> Hotkeys.
  • New hotkeys: Win+Alt+Del - close active tab, Win+F4 - close all tabs (same as «Cross» click).
  • When closing tab from Win7 taskbar thumbnail - closing confirmation was not appears onscreen.
  • New menu item «Duplicate root...» in tab menu. It tries to create new tab with root process and same directory/environment. Hotkey available but not assigned by default.

New in ConEmu Build 121108 (Nov 9, 2012)

  • [] Settings: Group of controls «Automatic attach of cmd ...» moved to «ComSpec» page.
  • New environment variables: "ConEmuDrawHWND" and "ConEmuBackHWND".
  • HWND environment variables ("ConEmuHWND", "ConEmuDrawHWND", "ConEmuBackHWND") are processed when creating new console. For example, you may start gvim from cmd running in ConEmu:
  • gvim --windowid !ConEmuBackHWND! -new_console:sH

New in ConEmu Build 121106 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • New ConEmuC command: Export environment variables to parent processes. Syntax (case insensitive):
  • ConEmuC /export[=CON|ALL] [Var1 [Var2 [...]]]
  • VarN - may contains one trailing/middle asterisk (sort of filemask support).
  • export - export to all processes of current console and ConEmu GUI
  • export=CON - export to all processes of current console only
  • export=ALL - export to all processes of opened tabs and ConEmu GUI
  • Note! This is experimental, «Inject ConEmuHk» required to set variables, some shells may ignores environment changes because of their features.
  • Shells comments: «Far Manager» & «TCC/LE» - OK; «cmd» - fails partially (required to run smth from active cmd, for example "cmd /k exit", to «apply» changes); bash - fails completely (seems, it does not support outside changing of env.vars)..
  • When «Hide caption» and «Frame width» >= resizable frame width - resizable frame used.

New in ConEmu Build 121104 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • Failed to input Chinese in PuTTY.
  • Resize bugfix: when maximizing scrolling window (e.g. "dir c:\ /s") «viewport» enlarges after delay.

New in ConEmu Build 121101 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Searching in full console (not only visible area). Checkbox «Freeze console» must be turned on.
  • Sometimes DosBox do not starts from Far command prompt (doom.exe -warp 10).
  • Background: you may set «solid color». Just type in «Path» field ColorRef value (e.g. «#300A24» without quotas) instead of background picture file. Supported formats are: «#RRGGBB» (hex), «0xBBGGRR» (hex), «xBBGGRR» (hex), «RRR,GGG,BBB» (dec), «RRR GGG BBB» (dec).
  • New predefined color scheme:
  • If you need purple background, set background color to #300A24 on «Main» page.
  • Decided to change default hotkey for «Minimize/Restore» - it's now Ctrl+~.
  • Issue 795 : Reducing window size on Hide/Restore.

New in ConEmu Build 121029 (Oct 30, 2012)

  • New option: Settings -> Status bar -> System colors.
  • Rollback changes in «Run As Administrator».
  • Forcing ConEmu's console to larger history buffer count. Small count causes «Up arrow don't work in prompt» for long console trees, for example: «cmd -> Far -> ConEmuC -> cmd -> vim -> cmd -> ...» Forcing values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\ConEmu: History buffer size - min=16, default=50; Count - min=16, default=32.
  • In the Tasks popup menu (Win+N or down arrow near to [+]) you may RClick on the task and get submenu with task contents. You may click task command to start particular command.
  • Names of renamed tabs should appear on taskbar.

New in ConEmu Build 121028 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Issue 526: Optimization of «Inject ConEmuHk». Hope on great speedup and no new bugs.
  • Changed «Run As Administrator» startup style to avoid flickering of real console.
  • Fixed default Far Manager macros for Lua (Far 3 build 2851).
  • Sometimes "-new_console" was removed with excess spaces.
  • *nix like «sudo» command. Batch file "%ConEmuBaseDir%\csudo.cmd". When checkbox «Add %ConEmuBaseDir% to %PATH%» is On («ComSpec» page), you may just type csudo in non-elevated prompt, for example: csudo dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess
  • Some fixes in closing ConEmu window.

New in ConEmu Build 121022 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • New default hotkeys: Ctrl+RClick - system menu, Shift+RClick - active tab menu.
  • New GuiMacro.
  • Menu() - pop up System (Type=0) or Tab (Type=1) menu.
  • Now you may use LButton, RButton, MButton in "Keys & Macro". Note. When you use Alt+Btn for Menu() - release Alt before Btn to avoid menu cancelling.
  • Added default support of GIT-bash directory structure, read ConEmuFolders#MinGW_structure for details.
  • Hiew32 fails to paste more than 1 char at once.

New in ConEmu Build 121020 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Filter had not works as expected on «Keys & Macro» page.
  • Minor changes in ConEmu initialization process.
  • Create new console dialog, field «Another user». Preferring build-in Administrator, another user from Administrators group, or just another user.
  • Recreating console as another user did not works.
  • «Tabs» page, if «Multiple consoles in one ConEmu window» is off then creating new tasks in new ConEmu window by default.
  • New ConEmu.exe command line switch:
  • /Palette - Choose named color palette.
  • Enable same FG/BG color when BG color is background image.
  • Resizing only works right from corners when «Pad size» is set.

New in ConEmu Build 121018 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Removing GCC warnings.
  • Tasks page: New button «Active tabs» will add all current tabs into selected task.
  • Button «No» in close confirmation dialog. It will close active console only.
  • Confirmation dialog was not shown when single console was opened.
  • Don't show «Press Enter or Esc to close console» after killing root process.
  • ConEmu window size breaks when moved across monitors.
  • Failed to update Windows 7 Jump list when no tasks are left in the list.

New in ConEmu Build 121014 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • Far 3 build 2851 supported. Builds from 2799 to 2850 (inclusively) not supported.
  • Incorrect startup position when maximized and hide caption.
  • AnsiColors16.ans changed, AnsiColors16t.ans created.
  • Some resize bugfixes.
  • Minor changes in Settings dialog.
  • New ConEmu.exe command line switches (some exists already but not described).
  • Reset - Don't load settings from registry/xml.
  • UpdateJumpList - Update Windows 7 taskbar jump list.
  • LoadCfgFile - Use specified xml file as configuration storage.
  • SaveCfgFile - Save configuration to the specified xml file.
  • Exit - Don't create ConEmu window, exit after actions.
  • Issue 760 : Shield overlay icon appears only on tab-change on Taskbar.
  • New option: «Appearance» -> «Show Shield overlay (Win7 or higher)».

New in ConEmu Build 121008 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • Changes in «Sleep in background».
  • Some more AI in «Press Enter or Esc to close console» (successful ReadLn takes into account).
  • Changes of «Pad size» was ignored.
  • Bugfix: Restart as Administrator fails.

New in ConEmu Build 121004 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • BugFix. "%ConEmuDir%" does not works for elevated consoles.
  • BugFix. Maximize fails on WinXP.

New in ConEmu Build 121002 (Oct 3, 2012)

  • Far 3 build 2848 supported.
  • Two elevated in task.
  • DBCS bugfixes (default font in real console).
  • More information in logs.

New in ConEmu Build 120930 (Oct 3, 2012)

  • GuiMacro: Paste(8) - paste path from clipboard converted to CygWin style.
  • When started with "/logN" switch and program folder is write-protected, log files will be created on Desktop\ConEmuLogs.
  • Bugfix: "/single" switch.

New in ConEmu Build 120926 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Shortcut opens multiple instances.
  • Internal window resize changes (continuation).
  • When can't create font (specified font not found in system) defaulting to monospace fonts.
  • Ctrl+Shift+D, Ctrl+Shift+F - select and paste to console path to a folder or a file

New in ConEmu Build 120925 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Window is not resizable in Normal mode with caption hidden.

New in ConEmu Build 120924 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Internal window resize changes (continuation).
  • ConEmuHk compiled with "/DYNAMICBASE".
  • Switch "/single" takes care of the path, from existing ConEmu instance was started.
  • For «Quake style» switch "/single" implied.

New in ConEmu Build 120923 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Internal window resize changes.
  • Touchscreen. Ignore SPI_GETWHEELSCROLLLINES.
  • IME. Composition window placed inside ConEmu.
  • RClick & Far 3 & "Far /w" does not select panel items.
  • Minor changes in splitter`s painting.
  • Issue 689 : Progress stuck at 100% in powershell.
  • New switch: "ConEmu.exe /reset" starts without loading settings (a'la fresh config).
  • New option on «Show» page: «Don't show ConEmu window on Taskbar».
  • New option on «Caption» page: «Always show numbers [n/m]».
  • New option on «Tabs» page: «Tabs on bottom».
  • Issue 716 : GuiMacro.
  • SetOption("QuakeAutoHide",Value).
  • Value: 2 - switch autohide, 1 - enable, 0 - disable.
  • Issue 717 : New global hotkey for «Restore (bring to front)». Unassigned by default.

New in ConEmu Build 120916 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • Settings dialog redesigned. New pages created. Some options renamed.
  • Regression fixed. Can't activate alternative mode for tab #1.
  • Alternative buffer of "far /w" was not scrollable.

New in ConEmu Build 120909 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Settings -> Tasks: more intuitive configuration for Tasks edit box, new buttons.
  • "Add Tab" - opens standard dialog with "Save" button, which append new line to Tasks edit box.
  • Add startup dir" - simplifying insertion of "-new_console:d:" with GUI dialog.
  • Add file path" - inserts path to any file (GUI dialog too).
  • Settings -> ComSpec: «Support UNC paths in cmd.exe». The beginning. Checkbox turn on "!DisableUNCCheck".
  • GCC Build updated. ConEmu, ConEmuC, ConEmuCD, ConEmuHk. 32-bit versions only was tested in GCC.
  • MinGW. ConEmu files MAY be stored in MinGW compatible locations
  • AutoUpdate is disabled in MinGW mode.
  • Minor changes in command line parser.
  • Selection ended unexpectedly when Modifier for selection start was set

New in ConEmu Build 120904 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • When «Auto tabs» is on, creating new console shrinked ConEmu size.
  • SplitScreen, dialog fixes.

New in ConEmu Build 120903 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • SplitScreen options in «Create new console» dialog.

New in ConEmu Build 120902 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Fixed regression of «Auto show scrollbar».
  • «Frame width» does not works (with «Hide caption always»).
  • Some excess and wrong console resizes removed on window state change.
  • Successive show/hide tab bar descrease window height.
  • Installer creates "ConEmu.exe" and "ConEmu64.exe" in AppPaths (HKLM).

New in ConEmu Build 120830 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Internal changes in child windows.
  • Some fixes for DBCS.
  • GuiMacro. Changes in Shell function. All following examples runs "cmd" in new tab: «Shell("new_console","cmd")» or «Shell("","cmd")» or «Shell("","","cmd")». Memorial. Other verbs, like «Shell("open","cmd")» runs "cmd" outside of ConEmu window.
  • Safe Far close. From current build, this option may be used for «Unsafe» console closing. Type "#Close(1,1)" (without quotas) in Safe Far close macro field and turn on checkbox. Now, click on the cross-button in ConEmu title provokes «Terminate active process» in all opened consoles, regardless of «Far» it is or not. Warning! Use on your own responsibility, this method may damage console applications data!
  • Far Manager & TabletPC. Tap on clock+1row (upper-right corner) show/hide panels.
  • DoubleClick on TabBar free area acts as click on [+] button.

New in ConEmu Build 120826 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • GuiMacro.
  • Internal changes in child windows.
  • When «Show & store current window size and position» is off, size and pos was not displayed on «Size & Pos» page.
  • CmdAutoAttach failed, if ConEmu.exe not installed.
  • «Show was hidden warning» option on «Features» page. «On» by default. May be turned «Off» for use with some desktop switchers (Dexpot e.g.).
  • Issue 674: Tab macro function going to console doesn't handle 1-based offsets properly.
  • «Twilight» and «Zenburn» color palettes.

New in ConEmu Build 120806 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Bugfixes and regressions of SplitScreen.
  • Failed to store height less than 9 lines.
  • "-new_console:d:C:\Program Files (x86)" fails.
  • GuiMacro.