tty detection for mintty #10
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Absolutely! It never amazes me how complicated windows makes solving this seemingly simple problem |
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This improves the tty detection in MSYS terminal environments on Windows. Specifically, it uses heuristics to determine whether a standard handle is a pipe or a tty. Behavior in normal Windows consoles remains unchanged. Fixes softprops#10
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This improves the tty detection in MSYS terminal environments on Windows. Specifically, it uses heuristics to determine whether a standard handle is a pipe or a tty. Behavior in normal Windows consoles remains unchanged. Fixes softprops#10
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This improves the tty detection in MSYS terminal environments on Windows. Specifically, it uses heuristics to determine whether a standard handle is a pipe or a tty. Behavior in normal Windows consoles remains unchanged. Fixes softprops#10
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Over time, ripgrep has grown its own tty detection code which includes a hack for (seemingly reliably) detecting the presence of a tty on Windows inside mintty. Would you be interested in a PR that brings it to this crate?
There isn't much code, but you can see it all here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/src/atty.rs
There is a pretty long issue on the topic of mintty detection here, which includes the provenance of the hack: BurntSushi/ripgrep#94 --- Spoiler alert: it's what
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