Colour not being shown in Windows command prompt

[Praful]

Instead of seeing colours, I'm seeing the escape sequence ←[1;33m10768←[0m←. I also get the same in another command prompt I use (ConEmu).

If it helps, ack shows colours correctly but ag doesn't!

[monochromegane]

I have changed default color option to disable on Windows.

Although I don't know how to detect if the console does support ANSI escape codes in Golang,
ANSICON that supports ANSI escape codes sets ANSICON environment variables.

So, If ANSICON environment variables is found, default color option become enable.

[monochromegane]

If you want to show color, you can specify --color option.

[Praful]

I just downloaded Golang and tried several ANSI packages for it. None of them worked!

One of them (github.com/fatih/color) has Windows support on the todo list.

ANSICON works but it doesn’t play well with my default console (ConEmu). However, ConEmu has ANSI support and pt is working with it although I’m struggling to get ANSI support and readline support (via clink) to work.

So far, only ack correctly allows colours in the Windows 7 command prompt so Perl must be doing something right! A clue might be what someone said about the above package:

Please, for the sake of sanity and portability, do not output escape sequences directly. Instead, if possible try to use terminfo or termcap to figure out what the appropriate escape sequence is. This makes it much easier to use your package on terminals with weird escape sequences.

You can read the thread here.

[monochromegane]

Thanks, I try to read the thread and ack's source.

[Praful]

I'd like to set default options for pt instead of typing them each time I run it, such as defaulting to /i /color. Is there a way of doing this eg using an environment variable?

[monochromegane]

Hi, @Praful .
@shiena gave me a solution by using his package in this pull request .
In my windows ANSICON console, it works. so, I merged it.

Can you check that is able to show color in your environment ?

[Praful]

Yes, I can see colours now in the Windows command prompt and ConEmu! Many thanks @monochromegane and @shiena.