Not working in VS Code

[YenHungLai]

Hello, as you can see the prompt is grayed out in Windows 10 VS Code integrated terminal. I did export TERM=xterm-256color and locale is set to UTF-8.

Works fine in Mintty though.

[zoranpopovic]

I get the same gray view with gitbash on pretty much any windows terminal except for mintty. it's all gray on conemu, cmder, the new Windows Terminal or VSC terminal.

[justjanne]

It seems to work fine for me, is this maybe an issue with windows?

[zoranpopovic]

yes, any msys2/mingw/cygwin based shell like bash for windows seems to have a problem with ansi color code interpretation. more details here microsoft/terminal#2837

[aedavelli]

I resolved it by upgrading git-for-windows to latest.
Update your git-for-windows to latest. Earlier TERM was defaulted to cygwin which supports only 16color. The MSYS2 runtime upgraded to Cygwin 3.1.4 where the TERM is defaults to xterm-256color. Refer https:/git-for-windows/git/releases

[rkraneis]

I see the same issue with the jansi based terminal in NetBeans. Other colorful output does work (ls, maven or even a vim session).

[CWempe]

I think this issue can be closed.

Maybe @rkraneis wants to create a separate issue for "jansi based terminal in NetBeans"?!