Enhance your terminal experience on Windows

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  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  • Luckily, Microsoft has invested its efforts into building the next-generation terminal app, called Windows Terminal. This new app supports long-awaited features like multi-tabs, emoji, theming, and many other tweaks that developers will love to use. This and many other tools will allow us to upgrade our terminal experience to look like this:

  • oh-my-posh

    The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

  • What will bring your terminal experience to life and enhance your terminal journey when you’re using the command-line tools is a theming engine. We will use Oh My Posh to achieve this result.

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  • nerd-fonts

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  • We will be using a theming engine that requires lots of special glyphs. The nerd font that we will be using is Meslo LGM NF. This font can be downloaded from this link. There are also other Nerd Fonts that you can choose from by visiting the Nerd Fonts GitHub Page.

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