From: Johannes Sixt Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:42:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a notice that only certain functions can print color escape codes Message-ID: <4B0F82E1.80402@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: <7vzl68v2zb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano schrieb: > Johannes Sixt writes: > >> Like this? > > Yeah, and in addition to "puts", "write(2)" is also not supported, right? Correct, good catch! --- 8< --- From: Johannes Sixt Subject: [PATCH] Add a notice that only certain functions can print color escape codes We emulate color escape codes on Windows by overriding printf, fprintf, and fputs. Warn users that these are the only functions that can be used to print them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt --- color.h | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/color.h b/color.h index 7d8da6f..3cb4b7f 100644 --- a/color.h +++ b/color.h @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ /* "\033[1;38;5;2xx;48;5;2xxm\0" is 23 bytes */ #define COLOR_MAXLEN 24 +/* + * IMPORTANT: Due to the way these color codes are emulated on Windows, + * write them only using printf(), fprintf(), and fputs(). In particular, + * do not use puts() or write(). + */ #define GIT_COLOR_NORMAL "" #define GIT_COLOR_RESET "\033[m" #define GIT_COLOR_BOLD "\033[1m" -- 1.6.6.rc0.43.g50037