Creating a program shortcut that runs octave through cmder

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In response to a previous question (Adding keyboard shortcuts for command prompt on Windows 7) I asked on this site I am now using cmder instead of command prompt as it is more user-friendly (as it includes keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc.) now I'd like to get other command-line programs (e.g., GNU Octave, Python, IPython, etc.) to run through it instead of cmd. I'd like to know how to create shortcuts with this capability, I have tried changing the program's target from the location of the program's exe file to the location of the cmder exe file with the location of the program's exe file immediately after it.

For example, for GNU Octave I have tried:

C:\Users\Brenton\Programs\cmder\Cmder.exe C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe

and its minor variants such as:

C:\Users\Brenton\Programs\cmder\Cmder.exe "C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe"

along with:

cmder C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe

(after adding cmder's location to my PATH environment variable)

and

cmder "C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe"

with all four giving the same result, a blank Cmder window that does not contain Octave.

I know that Octave can be called from Cmder, though, as I have done it on this very same PC by opening Cmder and running octave after adding octave's location to my PATH variable too.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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To run Octave CLI through the beautiful cmder, this is what I did as mentioned by Maximus - author of ConEmu in this answer:

Check "Force ConEmu as default terminal for console applications
add octave-cli.exe in list of hooked executable

Apply and save settings as shown in image below.

Finally open cmder and type octave-cli and viola you have octave in cmder!

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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answered Oct 12 '16 at 15:12

urvah shabbir

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '15 at 01:16

cmder.exe do not pass any arguments to ConEmu at all.

You need to run ConEmu directly without using that wrapper. Read about ConEmu switches.

Smth like this:

ConEmu.exe -LoadCfgFile "full path to conemu.xml" -cmd "C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe"

Creating a program shortcut that runs octave through cmder

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