[issue2687] Built-in color extension stopped working in 1.8

Eduard-Cristian Stefan alexandrul.ct at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 04:56:37 CST 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:32, Stephen Rank <bugs at mercurial.selenic.com> wrote:
> After upgrading to Mercurial 1.8 the color extension stopped working. If I
> run "hg help" it lists "color" in the "enabled extensions" section but text
> is always displayed in white now. Downgrading to 1.7.5 fixes the problem.

Works for me. In the configuration files I have:

    [color]
    mode = ansi

and I had to define an environment variable:

    TERM=vt100.

I have no idea what side-effects can show up because of the TERM value,
but I have colored diff output :D (and paged too)

Have a nice day,
  Eduard


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