Better terminal for windows?

[Chris Liechti]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote in
news:an2ivs$8fg$1 at peabody.colorado.edu: 
> The other problem is that the windows terminal doesn't properly honor
> ANSI color escapes. I tried a lot to get ipython's coloring to work
> under windows and finally gave up in disgust. Why is it that MS can't
> be bothered to _ever_ follow the simplest standards?
> 
> So some of ipython's nicest functionality (full support for tab
> completion for both objects and files,  and color-enhanced
> information, tracebacks and even syntax highlighted source info) are
> gone under Windows. 
> 
> If you know of a way to fix this, patches are welcome :)

well there is ansi.sys. if that driver is loaded the terminal undestands 
ansi escapes. long ago i used it under win95. it's still there in win2k but 
don't know how to use it. it the old days you needed to load it in 
config.sys.

chris
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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>