LÖVE

Are there any plans for including the built in console for Mac and other platforms in a later version of love? I have been using the terminal command, but it would be easier to simply be able to change it in the config files rather than set up a new command each time I start a new project.

No.
The windows things is a hack, due to the way it separates gui and console applications, and, in fact, from the next version on it should re-use the console it was started from, if possible.

If you really want a new console to pop up every time, why don't you just change the command you run it with, to something that spawns a terminal and then runs it.
(Like with xterm you'd do 'xterm -e love /path/to/game')