How to recognize ansi color escape codes in Window

Question

I have tried Ansicon and I still cannot get ansi escape sequences to become recognized and interpreted in my CMD.EXE command prompt on Windows 7 64 bit. Has anyone been able to work this correctly and get a colorized console with this OS?

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem today, and found a workaround.

The commandline utility Windows ANSI Color detects ANSI color codes and sets the corresponding console color.

Example:

myapp.bat | wac

where wac is the Windows ANSI color utility

Answer 2

I've played a lot with this, and the best console for me is FarManager on Windows. http://www.farmanager.com/

It's a file manager, but with CTRL+O you will get the console, and very handy with full support of ANSI, autocomplete, etc.

Answer 3

Ansicon use dll injection in order to enable ansi color in cmd.exe, which is disabled with the standard user privileges.

Try launching ansicon with "run as administrator" (right click)

Answer 4

ANSICON (source) seems to work fine for me...

• Put ansicon somewhere you intend to keep it...
• Run ANSICON -I
• Close the terminal
• Open a new one...