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PHP CLI colours don't show in cygwin

I use cygwin (x86_64-pc-cygwin) + mintty (2.3.3) on my windows 8.1 for backend development using PHP (5.6.19)

composer (1.0-dev) and artisan (5.2.27) (Laravel's console helper) output doesn't show colours while zsh prompt, ls, git and many other commands/programmes show output in colours with no problem.

How can I fix this?

Solution

  • I've tried different settings trying to fix this, but all failed.

    Eventually I found another solution, try using --ansi flag with composer, artisan or phpspec