The best command line shell for windows is: zsh on cygwin.

I admit, I'm on a rant roll at the moment about lack of functionality in windows.

titivillus, I don't see how you can do development on Windows without extreme pain :-)

I used to do a lot of long running GHC builds, and would swap focus to some other xterm to work, and then switch back to look at the build process an hour later ( Read more... )