Re: Re: #49547 [NEW]: Errors in the phd --help text

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06, Richard Quadling <rquadling@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/14 mike at silverorange dot com <doc-bugs@lists.php.net>: >> 1. The --color option says it is off by default, but it was on by default >> for me. > > > In my testing, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, by default, > have no support for coloured console output (along the lines of the > old-style ANSI.SYS for MS-DOS). > > I use a program called ANSICON.EXE from Jason Hood (his site is > currently offline [1]). Full source is available when the site is up. > > By use of a registry entry ... I'm not comfortable editing the registry settings when installing PhD (doubt its even possible using the PEAR installer). If someone knows a simple way to enable colors on Windows I'm game for it. His bugreport is however correct, colors are enabled by default on *nix, I however forgot to update the help text (like he said) when I changed the defaults :) -Hannes