ConEmu-Inside or Embedding

The ‘Inside’ mode allows to run ConEmu-Maximus5 inside any other window.

• As a pane of Windows Explorer - select from context menu of drive/folder/file item ‘ConEmu Inside’ (register it first and inside your Explorer window selected shell (cmd/powershell/bash) would be started in the current folder.
• As child window inside any desired window. This mode may be used to implement handy and powerful terminal inside other products, for example GitExtensions. Just start ConEmu with switch -insidewnd 0xHWND.

Configuration for use inside Windows Explorer

The mode was inspired by the question ‘How to embed PowerShell into Explorer or Explorer-like tool’?

Add item ‘ConEmu Inside’ into Windows ‘Explorer’ context menu, it will open ConEmu as child window inside ‘Explorer’ window. It’s similar to ‘ConEmu Here’ - working folder will be current folder from ‘Explorer’ window.

All options on the Integration page of Settings dialog.

Group ‘ConEmu Inside’

You may create several Explorer’s context menu items and view/edit previously defined items (just choose desired item in the ‘Menu Item’ list).

Option ‘Sync current directory (Explorer > ConEmu)’

At the moment, the option is not stored in the Settings dialog, but written as ConEmu command line option when you press ‘Register’ button. While Inside mode StatusBar shows ‘Sync’ column to turn synchronization On/Off.

The idea of the option is that ConEmu will monitor current folder in the Explorer window and synchronize it with the shell, by executing cd /d ... in the console. You may define another command for other shell, for example if you use ‘bash’ the command may be: cd '\2'\n.

Note for WinXP/Win2k3. You have to show full active folder path in the Explorer window title.

Run from Explorer window

In this mode ConEmu may be started from Explorer’s context menu. The default name of menu item is ‘ConEmu Inside’, but you may choose any other name, or create several items for different shells.

NB This mode requires some free space (Details, Preview or Status areas) to ‘inject’ terminal inside it.

Hint If you hold ‘Shift’ pressed while starting ConEmu from menu item, ConEmu would start the console ‘As Administrator’.

If ConEmu was already started in the Inside mode, new console would be started as new ‘Tab’. But TabBar is not shown by default (you may turn it on in Settings), so you may switch tabs through clicks on the StatusBar’s field ‘ActiveCon/TotalCount’.

Run Inside third-party applications

You (user or developer) may start ConEmu as child terminal window. The only thing you shall implement or provide is some child window, which ‘HWND’ you pass as ConEmu.exe switch -insidewnd 0xHWND when you run the terminal. HWND is hexadecimal window descriptor.

There is sample conemu-inside project which demostrates how you may create and control child terminal.

ConEmu command line switches