From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Escape sequences unprocessed under the "cygwin" terminal
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14aba7e2-a859-5476-f460-5721e3b9e61d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57FDF60B.4000206@gmail.com>
On 12/10/2016 10:36, Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I have a Java application which uses ANSI escape sequences to display
> colours, position the cursor, etc.
>
> It works fine under regular Unices, and also under |xterm| and |mintty|
> (in Cygwin//), but I'm having trouble running it under the "|cygwin"|
> terminal (i. e. |bash| launched from |cmd.exe|).
cmd is not a Cygwin terminal, it is a limited Windows one.
What is the problem to use mintty ?
> As you can see from the screen shot
> (https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ohg41.png), escape sequences are output "as
> is", without processing. On the other hand, I can easily run smth like
> |echo -e '\033[1;31mTest'| -- and colour text will be just there.
>
> At the same time, if I launch exactly the same application from a
> Midnight Commander// <https://www.midnight-commander.org/> subshell,
> escape sequences produced by the application will be interpreted
> correctly: https://i.stack.imgur.com/jV7UW.png
>
> Also, if I log in to my Windows box using SSH (i. e. replace the local
> connection with the remote one, but retain the same |"cygwin|"
> terminal), again, escape sequences are processed just fine.
from Unix ? The terminal on that side is able to properly manage
escape sequence
> It looks like when a subshell of some kind is created (|mc| or |ssh|),
> the terminal is put into some other mode. But playing with |stty| wasn't
> helpful, nor was export'ing |TERM=ansi|.
>
> Could anyone please suggest any solution?
use mintty.
It is the recommended one for cygwin
> I'm running
>
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.3 UNIT-725 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin
> and Windows 8.1.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Andrey.
Regards
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-12 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 10:32 Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov
2016-10-12 10:59 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-10-12 18:41 ` Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov
2016-10-12 18:46 ` Thomas Wolff
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