Broken ANSI color sequences on Windows
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Description
Not sure if this bug fits here. I'm using RubyInstaller Ruby 2.0.0-p451 (x64) with DevKit 4.7.2 (x64) on Windows7.
After installing the rdoc-data gem and installing the ri data for core + stdlib, i.e.
gem install rdoc-data
rdoc-data --install
...I noticed that the ansi formatter is now turned on by default. Not sure how that happened, but thankfully to @ssmythe I found this workaround which suggests set RI=--format bs to restore the old behaviour.
In fact the ansi coloring would be nice, but it doesn't work properly with my setup, i.e. looks like this:
Any ideas what could be the cause or how to fix this?
/cc @luislavena @ssmythe
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Reproduce the issue with RubyInstaller on Windows 7 after running gem install rdoc-data and rdoc-data --install, then compare the ANSI formatter output with the RI=--format bs workaround. Trace the RI formatter entry point used by these commands and verify that colored output renders correctly on Windows without requiring the workaround.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100