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Originally created by @Karl-WE on GitHub (Feb 15, 2020).

Make arguments user-friendly and type friendly

With ver 0.9 arguments to launch WT has been introduced. This is really a good feature addition.
However I find that the arguments are very linux like and unfriendly to new users:

please refer Ned Pyle:
https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/1227757778732601344

and Cinnamon examples:
wt -p "Windows PowerShell" -d . ; split-pane -V wsl.exe

wt -d C:\Users\cinnamon\GitHub\WindowsTerminal ; split-pane -p "Command Prompt" ; split-pane -p "Ubuntu" -d \wsl$\Ubuntu\home\cinnak -H

I do not feel this is userfriendly. Not everyone that want to replace cmd and powershell with a modern terminal is a dev

implement arguments that allow both written and readable and shortened args example, which exlcude using ambigous args

examples
-r or -run
-l or -list

Originally created by @Karl-WE on GitHub (Feb 15, 2020). <!-- --> # Make arguments user-friendly and type friendly With ver 0.9 arguments to launch WT has been introduced. This is really a good feature addition. However I find that the arguments are very linux like and unfriendly to new users: please refer Ned Pyle: https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/1227757778732601344 and Cinnamon examples: wt **-p** "Windows PowerShell" -d . ; split-pane **-V** wsl.exe wt -d C:\Users\cinnamon\GitHub\WindowsTerminal ; _split-pane_ -p "Command Prompt" ; split-pane -p "Ubuntu" **-d** \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\cinnak **-H** I do not feel this is userfriendly. Not everyone that want to replace cmd and powershell with a modern terminal is a dev # implement arguments that allow both written and readable and shortened args example, which exlcude using ambigous args examples -r or -run -l or -list
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