Colored output does not work on cmd.exe (Windows)

[jakwings]

Need another colorizer for Windows.

[sharkdp]

This has been brought up a few times (see discussion in #29, for example). At the moment, I would like to avoid switching to termcolor because it does not support 256 or RGB colors (this is being worked on, though. See BurntSushi/ripgrep#452).

I might be completely wrong on this, but it's unclear for me if there is a (significant) user base that (a) uses the command line on Windows, (b) is interested in modern command line tools like fd and (c) still uses cmd.exe. I would think that most users that fall into categories (a) and (b) would use PowerShell or Bash on Windows.

[jakwings]

A simpler solution is to detect color support and completely disable it on cmd.exe. (how to?)

[sharkdp]

Yes, that seems like a good option to me.

It might be easier to go the other way and generally disable colors on Windows and to enable them if support is detected. Maybe this is related?