Saturday, January 20, 2018

Note to self: How to re-enable terminal escape sequences in new WindowsConsole

Windows 10 "fall creators update" 2017, more precisely known as Windows 10 version 1709, brings with it a new version of the windows console.
This is the terminal that is used to display cmd.exe and PowerShell commandline environments.

Now the new version is nice, amongst other things it has is variable transparency, but it turns off processing terminal escape sequences from Python (and probably a load of other things) by default.

This is how to turn on the processing of terminal escape sequences in Win10 console V2.

Using RegEdit add "VirtualTerminalLevel" as a DWORD to ‘HKCU\Console’ set to value 0x1


restart the console and bob is your uncle.



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