CLI Lifestyle on Windows

2023-01-14

Much of my computing life has been spent on small laptops. Screen space was at a premium and god were those touchpads awful.

So I did what any reasonable person would do and tried to spend as little time with the garbage touchpad as possible and more time on the keyboard.

At the time I was using linux as my primary OS and only jumping into Windowns for printing papers in the collage library. But now nearly all my computing time is spent in Windows and it has been very real change.

Since 2018 when I started almost exclusively using Windows there have been some real strides in the CLI lifestyle.

• Windows Terminal
• The Windows Pseudo Console

Things are much much better. But there are a few tasks that I still don't love and most of it comes down to debugging.

1. I haven't found any good solutions for in-depth log review
   • Regex filtering
   • Lined coloring
   • etc
2. Full on debugging
   • I don't love kdnet
   • I don't love gdb
   • Really what I want is to interface with WinDbg from a console

For this I've started working on a console interface for the Windows debugging engine.