How to Get a Unix-Like Terminal Environment in Windows and Visual Studio Code

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  • vscode-codicons

    The icon font for Visual Studio Code

  • What this does is create a custom terminal profile for all Windows environments. It tells VS Code to use cmd.exe to open C:\cmder\vendor\init.bat, which starts up Cmder. You can set the icon to any Codicon.

  • cmder

    Lovely console emulator package for Windows

  • Assuming you already have Visual Studio Code installed, the first thing you'll want to do is Download Cmder. Extract the files to C:\cmder, or wherever you like.

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