# ConEmu/ConEmu

ConEmu: Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

Repository: https://github.com/ConEmu/ConEmu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/conemu
Homepage: https://conemu.github.io/
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: conemu, customizable, windows, terminal, console, shell, command-line
Last push: 2025-04-07T22:10:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 15, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5394, "days_push": 513, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9252, forks 619 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:29.099361+00:00)

## What it is
ConEmu is a customizable Windows console emulator that hosts multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as tabs and splits in one window. It supports WinAPI consoles (cmd, PowerShell, Far Manager) and Unix PTY shells (Cygwin, MSYS, WSL bash) with features like quake-style mode, hotkeys, and font customization.

## Use cases
- run multiple terminal tabs and split panes on windows
- customize windows console with fonts and hotkeys
- host cmd powershell and wsl bash in one window
- quake-style drop-down terminal on windows
- run old dos applications in 64-bit windows
- replace the default windows console window

## When to choose
- you want a highly customizable tabbed terminal on Windows
- you use Far Manager or mix WinAPI and PTY shells
- you need quake-style or fullscreen console modes

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform terminal (Windows-only)
- you want a shell with tab-completion and command history built in - ConEmu is not a shell
- you prefer a modern GPU-accelerated terminal like Windows Terminal

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: terminal-ui, developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools, windows
- platform: windows
- tags: terminal-emulator, console-emulator, tabs, splits, quake-style, far-manager, shell-host, command-line, desktop

## Member repositories
- ConEmu/ConEmu (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:29.099361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:23:12.636258+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ConEmu/ConEmu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:29.099361+00:00, sha 04160ea6213d)
  - homepage: https://conemu.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:22:52.578601+00:00, sha 0bae4bbd5cc5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.