[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49573] version 3.2.4 not displaying colors in a terminal

[Francisco Vico]

URL:
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                 Summary: version 3.2.4 not displaying colors in a terminal
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: nightcod3r
            Submitted on: Thu 10 Nov 2016 04:38:18 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: other
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

In an Xterm(271) (under Ubuntu 12.04) this script:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cprintf-m/

generates calls to printf, like printf("\033[1;31mtest\n"), but it does not
print colored strings (something like cprintf("red","%s\n","test"), will leave
the system terminal idle. It works fine in a Xterm(297) on a different system
(Ubuntu 14.04). Both terminals were in the default Ubuntu configuration (i.e.
'*customization: -color' option included).
According to the current octave documentation, that should work; the release
notes for 3.8, 3.6, 3.4 do not mention escape or printf in this regard.




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