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[feature request] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL)

Open francescoboc opened this issue 7 years ago • 10 comments

Would it be possible to load a Bash on Ubuntu on Windows terminal? (WSL)

Thanks

francescoboc avatar Dec 13 '17 23:12 francescoboc

It is already possible however it breaks the arrow keys as well as a few other nav/function keys.

HudsonMercer avatar Dec 19 '17 19:12 HudsonMercer

yes it works, that's great! but the breaking of the arrow keys is quite unconfortable, expecially for navigating into the last commands inserted... is it there a fix for that?

thank you very much, f.

francescoboc avatar Dec 20 '17 08:12 francescoboc

There is no fix that can be implemented on the users side that I am aware of. It has to do with how bash sends keys to the console in question. It's sending windows keycodes to a unix system and causing it to do basically nothing from what i understand. You can read more about it here.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/111

People using VScode were running into the same issues when using WSL inside of VScode

HudsonMercer avatar Dec 20 '17 23:12 HudsonMercer

Hey everybody, I came across your issue by looking for "WSL platformio compatibility ..." It makes me think, when I use MSYS2 (http://www.msys2.org/) to fix this kind of problem as with "ghc" (for haskell development), I use the program "winpty".

# Such as a simple script "ghci.sh":
exec winpty -- ghc --interactive "$@"

with ghc --interactive "$@" as a command for "winpty". Maybe, if the "winpty" program exists for WSL it can help you.

c-sonntag avatar Jan 02 '18 20:01 c-sonntag

Associated to #221 and #231

henryxparker avatar Feb 20 '18 21:02 henryxparker

You might want to know about the new Windows Terminal API and console. This project is a major effort by Microsoft, moving forward with high visibility

  • https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  • https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

mslinn avatar Jul 01 '19 17:07 mslinn

@mslinn Ive hidden your comment as offtopic and just to be clear, if you or anyone else has reports about platformio-ide-terminal working or not working with WSL please feel free to post your findings in detail here.

Related to WSL issues with platformio-ide-terminal is also issue #235. Please familiarize yourselfs with the reported issues on these two tickets and proceed ontopic.

Thanks for your understanding.

the-j0k3r avatar Jul 03 '19 05:07 the-j0k3r

Your comment seems to suggest that you believe the new Windows API for consoles and the new WIndows Terminal is WSL-specific. It is not. Windows Terminal and the API it is built from is applicable to all of Windows, and in fact is orthogonal to WSL and does not require WSL.

mslinn avatar Jul 03 '19 08:07 mslinn

This topic/issue is not related to the new Windows API for consoles or new Terminal.

Thanks for your understanding on this.

the-j0k3r avatar Jul 03 '19 11:07 the-j0k3r

+1 for WSL support. WSL2 will be a game changer. If I'd understod it correctly USB/serial will not be supported in WSL2 from day 1 but probably in a near future.

Reeaally hope that PlatformIO will work with WSL2 in a not too distant future

einarpersson avatar Apr 29 '20 10:04 einarpersson