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I had a nasty bug in version 1.2 that prevented the /D option from working if /E was also used.

I updated the version to 1.3 in the first post of this thread.


Dave Benham

Steffen (aGerman) discovered how to enable the ANSI escape sequences without resorting to modifying the registry. See series of posts starting at https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9144&p=59700#p59691 This is useful for the new /H option. Here is version 8.1 JREPL8.1.zip Summary of Ch...

This is much faster :!: I can't really tell. The first time I launch PowerShell within a given cmd.exe process, it is always S... L... O.... W....... Thereafter it is relatively fast. Unfortunately it doesn't work using cmd.exe which would have been even faster. The cmd seems to reset VT processing...

Very cool 8) But yes, slow. Even so, I think it may be worth adding as an additional option. Maybe /VT to enable the escape sequences, for those that are desperate for the feature and willing to wait for the slow initialization. JREPL already has significant startup time, and as you have it, there i...

Once I learned how to configure the Windows 10 console to support ANSI escape sequences , I created a new JREPL version that supports highlighting of matched or replaced text. Here is version 8.0 JREPL8.0.zip Summary of Changes C:\>jrepl /?history 2019-05-15 v8.0: Add /Hxxx options for highlighting ...

Starting with Windows 10, the console supports ANSI escape sequences, but only if the console is configured to NOT "use legacy console", and the program writing to the console must configure its output to interpret the sequences. CMD.EXE was modified such that its internal commands do support the AN...

Ooh - a bit of snark from aGerman... finally
and well said.

Thanks npocmaka_ I did a Google search and discovered a new Microsoft GitHub Windows Terminal project that includes source code for both the old console as well as the new Windows terminal. Best of all, Windows is encouraging community participation in developing new features :!: Also within I found...

I tested the behaviour described by Dave. c:\temp\with^ space.bat - WORKS \temp\with^ space.bat - FAILS with^ space.bat - FAILS But only when you try it from the command line :!: Tested in a batch file the results are different c:\temp\with^ space.bat - WORKS \temp\with^ space.bat - WORKS with^ spa...

I had always understood that you cannot escape token delimiters - only quotes will work. I'm unsure if i misread something here... although i read the batch parsing rules multiple times, i never noticed that and i always thought the excact opposite. No, you did not misread anything. The phase rules...

Update - The path need not be fully qualified. As long as the volume is specified, you can escape the spaces in the command string - quotes are not needed. C:\test>c:abc^ xyz.bat OK I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked at the inconsistent behavior (quotes not needed with volume, needed without). The...

I had always understood that you cannot escape token delimiters - only quotes will work. I suppose I knew that the token delimiter is initially escaped in phase 2 , but in a subsequent phase (execution phase 7, possibly others) the token delimiter cannot be escaped. So even if you escape a space in ...

Actually, by escaping the closing parens in the LERP definition, you can gain that last bit of performance and preserve the formatting by combining the last three statements with line continuation. @echo off & setlocal enableDelayedExpansion & mode 100,100 ( for /f %%a in ('echo prompt $E^| cmd') do...

I don't understand what is going on, but I can simplify your code a bit and improve performance :) @echo off & setlocal enableDelayedExpansion & mode 100,100 ( for /f %%a in ('echo prompt $E^| cmd') do set "esc=%%a" ) & echo !esc![?25l set "lerp=?=(a+c*(b-a)*1000)/100000+a" set /a "hei=80, wid=80" s...

As long as you include ENDLOCAL for every SETLOCAL within the FOR loop, then the code will work fine without any recursion limit being reached.

But if you forget the ENDLOCAL, then yes, you can get that error.