mgedmin / mgedmin/ghcloneall

Support Windows by using colorama

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enhancement help wanted
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Python
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Description

[colorama](https://pypi.org/project/colorama/) intercepts sys.stdout and parses ANSI escape sequences and converts them to Windows API calls that produce colors in a terminal.

Apparently it also supports cursor positioning commands.

So maybe all I need to do is `import colorama; colorama.init()` once and ghcloneall will behave nicely in a cmd.exe shell?

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start at ghcloneall's CLI entry point and inspect where ANSI escape sequences are written; check colorama's initialization behavior on Windows and verify colored output and cursor positioning in cmd.exe. Done means terminal output works correctly on Windows without breaking other platforms.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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