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> When you first start PowerShell, it creates a window with
a single notebook tab at the top, a menu bar, and a terminal
which should be running your default shell. At this point,
PowerShell can function exactly like your ex-favorite :-)
terminal emulator. While it is perfectly fine to use PowerShell
in this way, you are missing out on the main functionality of
the program - the ability to run many programs in a single window.
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> To start a new program, click on the File menu and choose one of
the programs listed there (you can change the programs listed here -
more on that later.) For example, choose 'Lynx.' A new tab should
appear at the top of the window with 'Lynx' in the label, and a
new terminal should appear, running Lynx. Try this with a few other
programs.
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> Another way to start new programs is to right-click on the terminal
window. A popup menu should appear, which works exactly the same
way as the File menu.
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> To run an arbitrary program, choose "Run..." from the menu. This
will bring up a dialog box where you can enter the program you wish
to run. <I
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> Now, before you start emailing me asking why I don't have keyboard
shortcuts for the programs, I'll explain here. I'm a bit nervous
about adding this because I can see how they would conflict with
keystrokes for the programs running in the terminal. They could
be user-customizeable, but they people would mess things up and
I would get tons of email from people asking "How come when I press
Control-X to save and exit in pico, Netscape opens?" Rrggg...
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The first, and most obvious, is to click on the notebook tab
of the terminal you want to switch to. The second, and a little
bit less obvious, is to press Control-Tab. This cycles through
all the open tabs. The third is to press Control and then the
number of the tab you want to switch to (1-9 only, though. Anything
after that and you can't use this method.) For example, to
switch to the 3rd tab, press Control-3.
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