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Window type detection in Vanilla-Window function is terrible #5

Closed chrisbenti closed 10 years ago

chrisbenti commented 10 years ago

See here

weswigham commented 10 years ago

ConEmu sets a bunch of environment variables relating to it within its shells (since I assume that's what this is mostly for); on top of that, standard cmd-based prompts seem to have env:PROMPT defined, whereas powershell ones do not. Powershell shells within ConEmu do not have env:PROMPT set, same as a normal powershell prompt. I know that environment variables aren't necessarily that safe, but if you wanted to determine based on them (as the window title may be worse)...

You could filter as such:

function Vanilla-Window{
    if($env:PROMPT -or $env:ConEmuANSI){
        # Console
        return $false
    } else {
        # Powershell
        return $true
    }
}

Which in my tests functions correctly in powershell shells within and without ConEmu, even if their names are blank (obviously).