If you’re familiar with using CTRL+D to exit out of your shell and want the same functionality for your PowerShell, here’s how to do it.
Open your PowerShell profile (Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1):
notepad $PROFILE
and add this line:
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Ctrl+d -Function DeleteCharOrExit
That’s it. Now reload your profile (or open a new terminal):
Continue ReadingIn trying to streamline my workflow I wanted to be able to run the Docker Quickstart Terminal from ConEmu. I’ve been working in ConEmu for all of my command line activity and it’s a way better experience overall. This post describes how to configure ConEmu so that you can get the Docker Quickstart Terminal to run inside of it. I’m going to assume you already installed ConEmu and the Docker Toolbox. This post is written against ConEmu 16.4.16.0 and Docker Toolbox 1.11.1. Let’s walk through this process now.
Continue ReadingInstalling Docker on Windows is a fairly simple and straightforward process. It is very well documented here. However if you have Hyper-V installed as I do, the instructions will not work right out of the box. If you try to start the Docker Quickstart Terminal, you’ll get the following error message:
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