[PATCH 3 of 3] help: update the color documentation for Windows 10 ANSI support

[FUJIWARA Katsunori]

At Tue, 23 May 2017 22:47:30 -0400,
Matt Harbison wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2017 10:49:26 -0400, FUJIWARA Katsunori  
> <foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 23 May 2017 08:34:15 -0400,
> > Matt Harbison wrote:
> >>
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison at yahoo.com>
> >> # Date 1495506779 14400
> >> #      Mon May 22 22:32:59 2017 -0400
> >> # Node ID dd667d12b2ff86a8fadc8035ffd8500807774d62
> >> # Parent  95ef3de9a9883c388dc80bb841fd0f7c41dac06a
> >> help: update the color documentation for Windows 10 ANSI support
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mercurial/help/color.txt b/mercurial/help/color.txt
> >> --- a/mercurial/help/color.txt
> >> +++ b/mercurial/help/color.txt
> >> @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
> >>    The default pager on Windows does not support color, so enabling the  
> >> pager
> >>    will effectively disable color.  See :hg:`help config.ui.paginate`  
> >> to disable
> >>    the pager.  Alternately, MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a  
> >> pager,
> >> -  which can be configured to support ANSI color mode.
> >> +  which can be configured to support ANSI color mode.  Windows 10  
> >> natively
> >> +  supports ANSI color mode.
> >
> > Isn't "recent" or such modifier needed for "Windows 10" ?
> >
> > I'm not sure that (almost) all existing Windows10 environments are
> > forcibly updated with ANSI color mode support feature. I've heard that
> > update of Windows10 can be disabled manually, even though update is
> > mandatory ordinarily.
> 
> I haven't followed Windows 10 at all, but assuming these two items [1][2]  
> are true, then the only functionality we would be missing is the (now  
> unsupported) first release.  I hesitate to use "recent" or "modern" or the  
> like, because those words don't age well.  (What will it mean in 3  
> years?)  Maybe putting the build number in is OK?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/17499#issuecomment-243481052
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

Thank you for information!

According to these pages, "Windows 10" without any modifier ("recent",
build number, and so on) seems enough reasonable.

> >
> >>  Mode
> >>  ====
> >> diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
> >> @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
> >>  ``mode``
> >>      String: control the method used to output color. One of ``auto``,  
> >> ``ansi``,
> >>      ``win32``, ``terminfo`` or ``debug``. In auto mode, Mercurial will
> >> -    use ANSI mode by default (or win32 mode on Windows) if it detects a
> >> +    use ANSI mode by default (or win32 mode prior to Windows 10) if it  
> >> detects a
> >>      terminal. Any invalid value will disable color.
> >>
> >>  ``pagermode``
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> 

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[FUJIWARA Katsunori]                             foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp