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Asked: May 17, 20262026-05-17T20:18:43+00:00 2026-05-17T20:18:43+00:00

Is there a way to enable color support for Mercurial in Powershell on Windows

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Is there a way to enable color support for Mercurial in Powershell on Windows 7? The ColorExtension page says to add

[color]
mode = win32

to your .hgrc file, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Running hg status shows several files that have not yet been added to the repository, and I believe they should have a pink color (based off other terminals I’ve seen). This is what’s displayed instead:

←[0;35;1;4m? samplefile.php←[0m
←[0;35;1;4m? anotherfile.php←[0m
←[0;35;1;4m? derpderp.xml←[0m
←[0;35;1;4m? derp_model.php←[0m
←[0;35;1;4m? stillnocolor.php←[0m
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    2026-05-17T20:18:44+00:00Added an answer on May 17, 2026 at 8:18 pm

    You probably need to update to the latest mercurial (1.6.4). Version 1.5.4 in particular didn’t do win32 color properly (and there have been quite a few color-related and win32-related bugs fixed in recent builds).

    You also need to make sure you’re not specifying ANSI color mode. You can force win32:

    [color]
    mode = win32
    
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