When starting a Take Command tab window, you will see a gutter on the left margin. The left gutter shows the "folding" triangles. A downward triangle will be displayed to the left of a command input line if that command produced output. You can click on the triangle to collapse (hide) the output and change to a right pointing triangle. Clicking on the triangle again will show the command output again. You can toggle all of the folds on and off with the "Toggle All Folds" option in the Tabs menu.
Each command input prompt will write a "tick" mark into the vertical scrollbar on the right side of the window. If you are using TCC in the tab window, when you run a command the prompt tick mark displayed for the next prompt will be green (if the command returned 0), red (if the command returned > 0), or gray (if nothing was returned). The colors can be modified with TCMD.INI directives if desired (see below). Using Shell Integration, you can move to the previous commands with the Ctrl-Up key; Ctrl-Down will take you back through the more recent commands. The currently selected command will have a highlight box drawn around its tick on the scrollbar. If you press Ctrl-G, Take Command will select all of the text output for that command; you can then copy it to the clipboard as though you had marked it with the mouse. If you are on the current input line, Ctrl-G will mark the output of the previous command.
TCC 36.50 supports shell integration natively; PowerShell, CMD, bash, fish etc. will require some modifications to the prompt or internal settings (and may not support all shell integration features).
Toast Notifications
TCExplorer can display a Windows desktop toast notification when a shell command sends an OSC 9 or OSC 777 notification escape sequence to a ConPTY terminal tab. This lets long-running commands (builds, downloads, backups, and similar tasks) alert you when they finish, even if the tab isn't currently in the foreground. Clicking a toast restores the Take Command window (if minimized) and activates and focuses the tab that sent the notification.
To enable toast notifications,go to the Advanced options tab in the Take Command configuration and check "Desktop Notifications". The option is disabled by default.
Notifications only fire for a tab that is not the currently active tab. If the tab sending the OSC sequence is active and focused, no toast is shown, since you're already looking at it.
Notifications use the standard Windows toast/Action Center notification system, so they follow your Windows notification settings (Focus Assist, per-app notification preferences, etc.).
Toast notifications support the OSC 9 and OSC 777 forms.
OSC 9 (bare notification):
ESC ] 9 ; <message> BEL
OSC 777 (title + body notification):
ESC ] 777 ; notify ; <title> ; <body> BEL
The toast title is <title> and the body is <body>. Any semicolons inside <body> are preserved (they aren't treated as additional field separators).
Example (from TCC):
echo ^e]777;notify;Backup;Backup completed successfully^g
