Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-02-20 17:20, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:28:26 -0500
> Lee wrote:
>> For whatever it's worth, the only problem I've noticed with 3.1.4 was
>> ansi control character handling and that was fixed by importing this
>> bit into the registry:
>>
>> -------------
>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
>> "VirtualTerminalLevel"=dword:00000001
>> -------------
> 
> In what situation is registry modification obove necessary?

Enables Console Host Virtual Terminal ANSI Escape Sequence Support; see:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/06/20/understanding-windows-console-host-settings/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/new-experimental-console-features/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/24-bit-color-in-the-windows-console/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-the-evolution-of-the-windows-command-line/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-backgrounder/
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

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