Cmder console commands

[namanyayg]

Is there any simple way to pass instructions to cmder through cmd or cmder itself? Example, something like creating a new tab, opening cmder in the current location, etc.

[Jackbennett]

Cmder is some special sauce into conEmu.

Conemu can do all you ask. I think the defaults are win+w for the new tab window.

ConEmu Settings are win+alt+p. rummaging through that you should find all you want. It's a bit unfriendly though.

[namanyayg]

Thanks for the help! Though I'm still not able to figure out how do manipulate cmder through console commands. For example, I want to create an alias the duplicates the root and runs a specific command on the newly created tab - is that possible? Thanks!

[Jackbennett]

I think what you want to be editing is a custom profile that runs in the process.

cmder seems to use init.bat so you could try modifying that?

If you use the powershell console edit the file in $profile.currentUserAllHosts

[namanyayg]

I'm not exactly sure what I can do in the custom profile, kinda a newb here.

I've tried experimenting with doing things like:

cmder -new_console this creates a new window' instead of a tab, and requires me to go into the cmder install directory (This could be bypassed if I use an alias or add cmder to my path, though)

conemu -new_console simply minimizes the window. Not sure what's going on here.

cmd -new_console works to a degree, but it creates a new CMD tab instead of the cmder tab. I cannot use things like git, then.

[Arcovion]

I'd like to know if there's a way to invoke Cmder like cmd.exe;
If you make a shortcut to cmd /k "dir" it'll open a prompt, run the command "dir" and keep it open.

You can invoke git bash with <cmder_path>/vendor/msysgit/bin/sh.exe -lc "ls", this will run your command (ls) then exit.

Now, you can combine the above commands and make a shell that stays open, but it'll be in the ugly command prompt window. I'm asking if I can do it with Cmder, just run a command and stay open.

Edit: I just saw https://github.com/bliker/cmder/blob/master/Cmder.bat, this wasn't in my download for some reason. Looks like I should be able to pipe commands to ConEmu, but it's not really working... maybe someone who has done this before can help me?

Update: Solved it, so cmder.bat should look like this:

@echo off
set CMDER_ROOT=%~dp0
start %CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\conemu-maximus5\ConEmu.exe /icon "%CMDER_ROOT%\cmder.exe" /title Cmder /loadcfgfile "%CMDER_ROOT%\config\ConEmu.xml" /cmd cmd /k "%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat cd %CD% && %~1"

Now running cmder.bat "ls && dir" will open Cmder, run the commands and stay open. It's the proper Cmder shell (not just git bash) so, as you can see, both ls and dir work.

@namanyayg You can use all of these commands if you pass the options to ConEmu via cmder.bat, the page lists examples of how to create tabs etc.

[thshdw]

See also #457

[Jackbennett]

Looks like another one relevant to #370 with 457 a workaround.