[fpc-devel] Compiler message colour scheme

[Sven Barth]

Am 22.11.2020 um 17:19 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel:
>
> I believe that to enable colour on a Windows console, you need to use 
> an API function, which can get a bit clumsy because there isn't an 
> equivalent to \e[0m to reset to default, so you have to retrieve the 
> current console colour beforehand.  Windows 10 /might/ accept the ANSI 
> escape sequences, but I'm not sure.
>
On Windows the code checks whether the VT100 compatibility is available 
that was introduced with some Windows 10 update and only uses the VT100 
codes in that case.

Regards,
Sven
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