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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/django-admin.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.7.txt | 3 |
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diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt index 69555dcb5c..cac7a5bc22 100644 --- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt @@ -1552,6 +1552,11 @@ color-coded output if your terminal supports ANSI-colored output. It won't use the color codes if you're piping the command's output to another program. +Under Windows, the native console doesn't support ANSI escape sequences so by +default there is no color output. But you can install the `ANSICON`_ +third-party tool, the Django commands will detect its presence and will make +use of its services to color output just like on Unix-based platforms. + The colors used for syntax highlighting can be customized. Django ships with three color palettes: @@ -1636,6 +1641,14 @@ would specify the use of all the colors in the light color palette, *except* for the colors for errors and notices which would be overridden as specified. +.. versionadded:: 1.7 + +Support for color-coded output from ``django-admin.py`` / ``manage.py`` +utilities on Windows by relying on the ANSICON application was added in Django +1.7. + +.. _ANSICON: http://adoxa.hostmyway.net/ansicon/ + Bash completion --------------- diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt index 1041edb37b..0d37a8d99a 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt @@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ Management Commands * All HTTP requests are logged to the console, including requests for static files or ``favicon.ico`` that used to be filtered out. +* Management commands can now produce syntax colored output under Windows if + the ANSICON third-party tool is installed and active. + Models ^^^^^^ |