Colors in Visual Code

[tyler36]

Cmder works fine for me except colors are off in Visual Studio Code.

The prompt shows in color (green path with red git branch).
If I run, say PHP Code Sniffer, it out fine in the terminal window

W......W...........................W.... 40 / 40 (100%)

but displays the control codes(?) in VSCode

?[33mW?[0m......?[33mW?[0m...........................?[33mW?[0m.... 40 / 40 (100%)

My VSCode settings are:

    "terminal.integrated.cursorBlinking": false,
    "terminal.integrated.cursorStyle": "line",
    "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace",
    "terminal.integrated.fontSize": 12,
    "terminal.integrated.lineHeight": 1.4,
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
        "/k",
        "%CMDER_ROOT%\\vendor\\init.bat"
    ],

Any ideas?

OS: Win10
VSCode: 1.19.1 & 1.20.0

[AdsonCicilioti]

Create a vscode.bat file on your Cmder directory with this hack:

@echo off
SET CurrentWorkingDirectory=%CD%
SET CMDER_ROOT=B:\Apps\Cmder
CALL "%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat"
CD /D %CurrentWorkingDirectory%

On vscode setting set:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
        "/K",
        "B:\\Apps\\Cmder\\vscode.bat"
    ]

... And be Happy!

note: Change cmder path to your path.

[tyler36]

@AdsonCicilioti Thanks for the the suggesting. But it didn't work.

I tried upgrading to 1.35 this morning but no go there either :(

[tyler36]

I get color in the prompt path, and I get color from yarn in VSCode

I just dont get color with PHP Code Sniffer or PHPunit when I run the terminal through VSCode. The commands show color in a normal Cmder terminal session though which is the frustrating thing. :)

[Stanzilla]

Hey there,
Cmder uses ConEmu as terminal emulator, if you are experiencing a problem with that, please open a bug over at https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu

Thank you! :)

[DRSDavidSoft]

For future visitors, with the commits in #1665, there seems to be no need for the batch file mentioned in the above answer. This has been also stated here.

[tyler36]

Seems to be an issue with VSC. No problems running in Cmder, but the output of PHP code is not colored in Visual Studio Code using Cmder.

Cmder output:

Visual Code output

Propbably related to this: microsoft/vscode#22616

For people that really want the the color displayed, append the line | cat

[DRSDavidSoft]

@tyler36 As discussed in #1861, I think this is due to a problem in PHP binaries for Windows. I don't think that the same issue will happen by using something like chalk for example.

As I can see in your screenshot, the Clink part of Cmder has color, but phpcs which calls PHP binaries don't have color output correctly.

[tyler36]

@DRSDavidSoft - thanks for an update ... I started down that rabbit hole before I made the original post but there didn't seem to be anything to try. As you said, PHP binary issue.

BUT ... came across php/php-src#2103
Seems they were able to get some new code in PHP 7.2 for windows.

Downloaded latest version PHP 7.2.9 ( NTS x64) and it works as expected in Visual Code!

[tyler36]

PHP7.1

PHP7.2

[DRSDavidSoft]

@tyler36 Thanks for the follow-up! Another reason to update to the 7.2.x branch of PHP on Windows.

[joshpeng]

I am running into the same issue, but rather with Python instead of PHP. Anyone figure out how to solve this on Python CLIs?

The | cat suggestion works, but that's kind of annoying to type every time.