Escape sequences unprocessed under the "cygwin" terminal

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/10/2016 10:36, Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I have a Java application which uses ANSI escape sequences to display
> colours, position the cursor, etc.
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> It works fine under regular Unices, and also under |xterm| and |mintty|
> (in Cygwin//), but I'm having trouble running it under the "|cygwin"|
> terminal (i. e. |bash| launched from |cmd.exe|).

cmd is not a Cygwin terminal, it is a limited Windows one.
What is the problem to use mintty ?

> As you can see from the screen shot
> (https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ohg41.png), escape sequences are output "as
> is", without processing. On the other hand, I can easily run smth like
> |echo -e '\033[1;31mTest'| -- and colour text will be just there.
>
> At the same time, if I launch exactly the same application from a
> Midnight Commander// <https://www.midnight-commander.org/> subshell,
> escape sequences produced by the application will be interpreted
> correctly: https://i.stack.imgur.com/jV7UW.png
>
> Also, if I log in to my Windows box using SSH (i. e. replace the local
> connection with the remote one, but retain the same |"cygwin|"
> terminal), again, escape sequences are processed just fine.

from Unix ? The terminal on that side is able to properly manage
escape sequence

> It looks like when a subshell of some kind is created (|mc| or |ssh|),
> the terminal is put into some other mode. But playing with |stty| wasn't
> helpful, nor was export'ing |TERM=ansi|.
>
> Could anyone please suggest any solution?

use mintty.
It is the recommended one for cygwin

> I'm running
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>> CYGWIN_NT-6.3 UNIT-725 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin
> and Windows 8.1.
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> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Andrey.

Regards
Marco


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