From 4f128fcf5dd5099a5ea374a87cad64852a9b62dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlton Gibson Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:26:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Refs #32694 -- Clarified when colorama requirement is needed in Windows how-to. --- docs/howto/windows.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/howto/windows.txt b/docs/howto/windows.txt index 5601d1b958..5dc1c3ef0d 100644 --- a/docs/howto/windows.txt +++ b/docs/howto/windows.txt @@ -96,12 +96,13 @@ Colored terminal output .. versionadded:: 3.2 -A quality-of-life feature is to output colored (rather than monochrome) output -on the terminal. This should work both on CMD and PowerShell. If for some -reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable +A quality-of-life feature adds colored (rather than monochrome) output to the +terminal. In modern terminals this should work for both CMD and PowerShell. If +for some reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable :envvar:`DJANGO_COLORS` to ``nocolor``. -To enable this, colorama_ must be installed:: +On older Windows versions, or legacy terminals, colorama_ must be installed to +enable syntax coloring:: ...\> py -m pip install colorama