From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T04:43:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Color sequences in ri on Windows

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, using Kernel.system as an example, I get:
>> ←[0m←[1;32mKernel.system←[m
>
> ri doesn't have a "--no-color" option?
> It probably should (and used to work fine).  Maybe take it up with them.

Apparently it doesn't any longer. And I'm still a little confused as
to why ri output now has colors by default, though -- I don't know if
it's a change in ri, or if the new rdoc files I just installed have
colors embedded in them, or what. (I don't recall which ri files used
to display without colors.)

Also (this is to Luis), I tried removing and reinstalling some gems,
and I still don't have a .ri folder, nor have I found any YAML files
in my whole Ruby installation.

> Until then you could try installing the win32-console gem, or pipe your
> output through wac [1] or perhaps instruct your computer to load
> ansi.sys [2] (though I've never tried the latter).

I did try win32console, but it didn't help. I will look into wac. And
from my recent reading on the subject, ansi.sys doesn't work in modern
versions of Windows.

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>
> [1]
> http://groups.google.com/group/cukes/browse_thread/thread/14a4ded4d083f7c?pli=1
> [2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/101875
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