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Windows default terminal can't handle color codes: --no-ansi by default?

See original GitHub issue

The default Windows terminal (below) and even Hyper (above) can’t handle color codes:

Maybe make --no-ansi the default on Windows? Or allow me to set the setting system-wide?

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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moigagoocommented, May 31, 2018

FYI colors are shown just fine in ConEmu.

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vberliercommented, Jun 17, 2018

Hmm… I’m using ConEmu as the integrated VS Code terminal and I have kind of the same problem.

The colors work fine in ConEmu but don’t show up through VS Code. However they work when piping the output to cat.

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