changeset 32666:dd0bdeb0feee

help: update the color documentation for Windows 10 ANSI support It looks like only the initial release of Windows 10 lacked support for this functionality. [1][2] Since that build is no longer supported, I didn't bother getting very specific, to keep the help text less cluttered. [1] https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/17499#issuecomment-243481052 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Mon, 22 May 2017 22:32:59 -0400
parents 98c2b44bdf9a
children 2806c7bbcb5e
files mercurial/help/color.txt mercurial/help/config.txt
diffstat 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/help/color.txt	Mon May 22 22:20:38 2017 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/help/color.txt	Mon May 22 22:32:59 2017 -0400
@@ -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.
 
 Mode
 ====
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Mon May 22 22:20:38 2017 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Mon May 22 22:32:59 2017 -0400
@@ -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``