
This allowed Console to render many of even the most complex text-based UI’s generated by tools like Tmux (a great tutorial here for the uninitiated) and Midnight Commander … or even vim, bash, Midnight Commander and htop running simultaneously in separate Tmux panes: The first significant version of the Console’s new VT engine shipped in Wind(Anniversary Update), and was quickly followed in the 1703 (Creators Update) release which contained much richer support for a wider range of VT sequences.

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This was made even more important and urgent due to the arrival of Windows Subsystem for Linux which allowed unmodified Linux binaries to run natively on Windows, allowing Windows users to easily run most of the *NIX tools they’d previously had to fire-up in a separate VM. ] 10 Before (XP) and after (Win10) VT support added to Console But with the steady growth in adoption of *NIX-first open-source tools, many of which emit VT sequences to color and draw text-based UI’s, it was increasingly imperative that the Windows Console be able to support VT sequences. Prior to the (then new) team’s efforts, Windows Console barely supported any VT sequences at all. This all started with a rewrite of the Console’s VT parser. Over the last couple of years, during “The Grand Overhaul” of Windows Console, we’ve made some significant improvements to Console’s parsing and handling of ANSI/VT sequences, and how the Console stores and renders colored text.
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These colors are independent of the color palette and are not affected by changes you make to your color palette! But before we discuss the inherent implications here, we need to consider how these new settings fit into the color changes we’ve been making over the last several Windows 10 releases: Karma Karma Karma Karma Console Chameleon The Terminal Colors fields allow you to specify specific RGB color values for the default foreground and/or background colors. Use Color: Draw the cursor in a specific RGB color, like this fetching green against dark gray background: Inverse Color: The current and default behavior where the cursor color is the calculated inverse of the background color … which results in, for example, this adorable fetching pink against the bright green background of my first computer – the Dragon 32 😊 Vertical Bar: For all you crazy kids who like your cursors tall and skinny


Legacy Style: Thicker underscore by default, but controlled by the cursor size property in the “Options” page

