Clink combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe
with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the well-known Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions.
Downloads are available from the releases page.
There are no production releases yet; currently only pre-release builds are available, for testing purposes.
See the issues page for known issues or to file new issues.
- The same line editing as Bash (from the GNU Readline library version 8.0).
- History persistence between sessions.
- Context sensitive completion;
- Executables (and aliases).
- Directory commands.
- Environment variables
- Thirdparty tools; Git, Mercurial, SVN, Go, and P4.
- New keyboard shortcuts;
- Paste from clipboard (Ctrl+V).
- Incremental history search (Ctrl+R/Ctrl+S).
- Powerful completion (Tab).
- Undo (Ctrl+Z).
- Automatic
cd ..
(Ctrl+PgUp). - Environment variable expansion (Ctrl+Alt+E).
- Doskey alias expansion (Ctrl+Alt+F).
- (press Alt+H) for many more...)
- Scriptable completion with Lua.
- Coloured and scriptable prompt.
- Auto-answering of the "Terminate batch job?" prompt.
There are a variety of ways to start Clink;
- If you installed the auto-run, just start
cmd.exe
. Runclink autorun --help
for more info. - To manually start, run the Clink shortcut from the Start menu (or the clink.bat located in the install directory).
- To establish Clink to an existing
cmd.exe
process, use<install_dir>\clink.exe inject
Clink can be extended through its Lua API which allows easy creation of context sensitive match generators, prompt filtering, and more. More details can be found in Clink's documentation here.
Clink uses Premake to generate Visual Studio solutions or makefiles for MinGW. Note that Premake >= 5.0-alpha12 is required.
- Cd to your clone of Clink.
- Run
premake5.exe <toolchain>
(where<toolchain>
is one of Premake's actions - seepremake5.exe --help
) - Build scripts will be generated in
.build\<toolchain>
. For example.build\vs2013\clink.sln
. - Call your toolchain of choice (VS, mingw32-make.exe, msbuild.exe, etc). GNU makefiles (Premake's gmake target) have a help target for more info.
- Run
npm install marked
to install the marked markdown library. - Run
premake5.exe docs
.
Clink is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.