We've heard from many, many developers, who've frequently requested a PTY-like mechanism in Windows - especially those who created and/or work on ConEmu/Cmder, Console2/ConsoleZ, Hyper, VSCode, Visual Studio, WSL, Docker, and OpenSSH. Looks like the Windows Console team is working on making 3rd party consoles better by creating this new PTY mechanism: In the *NIX world, this isn't a problem because *NIX provides a "Pseudo Terminal" (PTY) infrastructure which makes it easy to build the communication plumbing for a Console or service, but Windows does not. When building a Console or service, developers need to be able to access/supply the communication pipes through which their Terminal/service communicates with command-line applications. One of those weaknesses is that Windows tries to be "helpful" but gets in the way of alternative and 3rd party Console developers, service developers, etc. I use that hotkey often enough that this small bug means I just won't use that console at all. For example, I like Hyper as a terminal but it doesn't support Ctrl-C at the command line. Most of these 3rd party consoles have weird or subtle issues. There's a ton of open source projects over the year that try to take over or improve on "conhost.exe" (the thing that handles consoles like Bash/PowerShell/cmd on Windows). Folks have been trying to fix supercharge the console/command line on Windows since Day One.
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