ANSI colors not showing by default

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sun May 21 21:02:00 GMT 2017


Hi, your symptom description is quite sparse...

Am 21.05.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Sky Diver:
> Lately I noticed that colors are not showing by default in some situations.
> The most apparent case is when running composer.
What "composer"?

> The latest composer version on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" console,
> and even when running it via a mintty shell looks just fine. But from
> cygwin the output is monochrome.
"From cygwin" could mean (guessing) from a cygwin console window, where 
your TERM setting would be "cygwin".
That could cause an application to assume no colour support. So it would 
help if you tell us what your settings are.

> I would love to understand what's going on.
> I tried the following:
> - Change the TERM var to several values
Which values?

Thomas

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