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conhost.exe is the terminal, cmd.exe is the shell, this patch is in fact only currently used in conhost



That is _technically_ correct (the best kind). There's some plumbing between conhost and Terminal we need to clean up before we can add it to Terminal too. We've got a branch ready, we've just got to merge a whole stack of PRs first before we can get there.


conhost is in the terminal repo? Huh interesting, that surprises me.


Conhost and Terminal share quite a lot of code in fact. The text buffer, the renderer, the VT sequence parser - all that's the same codebase. That allows bugfixes and improvements to the the Terminal to also flow back to the vintage console (for people who still use that)


Interesting tidbit - thank you for sharing. That's handy for those who prefer the vintage console (including myself).




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