From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 110719 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2020 01:35:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 110679 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2020 01:35:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:35:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 4xDXjOzZSkqGX4xDYjVOEJ; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:35:00 -0700 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <817yBTNxU4176Set.1582206646@web03.cms.usa.net> <1613327751.20200220213642@yandex.ru> <20200221092029.da2c51cec466dc8339ee0906@nifty.ne.jp> <7c3ebfda-6f7f-a22d-cdef-bdba946bbec8@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <20200221102722.f7832096e9461b5d5dc8e7c4@nifty.ne.jp> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <0cc4ea70-e1b3-ddb6-419c-82808c1e7f9a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200221102722.f7832096e9461b5d5dc8e7c4@nifty.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-02/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On 2020-02-20 18:27, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:15:59 -0700 > Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-02-20 17:20, Takashi Yano wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:28:26 -0500 >>> Lee wrote: >>>> For whatever it's worth, the only problem I've noticed with 3.1.4 was >>>> ansi control character handling and that was fixed by importing this >>>> bit into the registry: >>>> >>>> ------------- >>>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >>>> >>>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console] >>>> "VirtualTerminalLevel"=dword:00000001 >>>> ------------- >>> >>> In what situation is registry modification obove necessary? >> >> Enables Console Host Virtual Terminal ANSI Escape Sequence Support; see: >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode >> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/06/20/understanding-windows-console-host-settings/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/new-experimental-console-features/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/24-bit-color-in-the-windows-console/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-the-evolution-of-the-windows-command-line/ >> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-backgrounder/ >> https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs >> https://github.com/microsoft/terminal > > I mean what is the problem which need this in cygwin. Windows programs which emit (or use?) console ANSI escape sequences run from cmd (which by default switches off Virtual Terminal ANSI Escape Sequence handling for programs run from it) and which do not themselves set that console mode (or can not because they were written for earlier Windows which does not support that flag). -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple