Introducing Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a replacement terminal experience for Windows. If you're used to running command-line applications on Windows, you are likely to be familiar with the previous Windows Console experience that you see when you run PowerShell or cmd.exe (shown in the following figure):

Figure 3.1 – A screenshot showing the cmd.exe user experience

Windows Console has a long history spanning back through the Windows NT and Windows 2000 era, and back to Windows 3.x and 95/98! During this period, many, many Windows users have created scripts and tools that depend on the behavior of the Windows Console. The Windows Console team managed to make some good improvements to the experience (for example, Ctrl + mouse wheel scrolling to zoom the text, and improved handling of ANSI/VT control sequences emitted by many Linux and UNIX command-line apps and shells) but were ultimately limited in what they could achieve without breaking...