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		scott_karana on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web brow... Powershell is a great shell, but the terminal it's running in (cmd) is still pretty mediocre...

Hello71 on March 1, 2014 [–]

Powershell has nothing to do with Command Prompt. it runs on the Windows console subsystem.

scott_karana on March 2, 2014 | [–]

Whatever the case, it has all the limitations. Poor resize support, strange selection/paste support, and limited featureset.

They must be forks of each other if they're actually not distinct: compare the option screens.

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