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Colors in cygwin being displayed as raw ANSI codes
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Mar 15, 20264833 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When running command-line Mercurial with the color extension on, the colors appear as expected in the Windows command prompt ( ). However, in cygwin the colors are appearing as the underlying ANSI codes (for example: ). When I searched for a solution, it seemed it's more common for colors to work i…
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Fix for: Colors in cygwin being displayed as raw ANSI codes
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When you use the Cygwin console, the interpretation of control sequences is done by the Cygwin DLL. That DLL of course is only linked into Cygwin programs, so a non-Cygwin program like Mercurial will not be able to make use of that. So why does it w…
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