Is Cygwin 3.1.X Stable Enough to Use?

[Takashi Yano]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:15:59 -0700
Brian Inglis wrote:
> 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

I mean what is the problem which need this in cygwin.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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