ConEmu

ConEmu (short for Console emulator) is a free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.^[3][4] ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with tabs and a status bar. It also provides emulation for ANSI escape codes for color, bypassing the capabilities of the standard Windows Console Host to provide 256 and 24-bit color^[discuss] in Windows.

ConEmu

Developer(s)	Zoin (2006–2008) Maximus5 (2009–2017)
Initial release	March 9, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-03-09)[1]
Repository	github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu
Written in	C++[2]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	Chinese, English, German, Japan, Russian, Spanish
Type	Terminal emulator
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	conemu.github.io

The program has a large range of customization, including custom color palettes for the standard 16 colors, hotkeys, transparency, an auto-hideable mode (similar to the way Quake originally displayed its developer console).

Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager,^[4] bringing some features common for graphical file managers to this console application (thumbnails and tiles, drag and drop with other windows,^[5] true color interface, and others). As of 2012, ConEmu could be used with any other Win32 console application or simple GUI tool (such as Notepad, PuTTY or DOSBox).^[4][5][6][7] ConEmu doesn't provide any shell itself, but rather allows using any other shell.^[4] It does provide a limited macro language,^[8] to control the hosted applications startup.