On Windows, text after errors occur is black-on-black

[toolness]

I'm not sure if this is specifically a sphinx-autobuild problem or something that's due to a dependency or my system configuration, but I've noticed that when I run sphinx-autobuild on a Windows 10 system, all text after an error occurs is black text on a black background:

I've tried changing the settings of my terminal so that e.g. my default background color isn't black, but that doesn't seem to help.

Whenever another error occurs, it does show up in red-on-black, but the text after it reverts to being black-on-black too.

[pedrojuk]

Have this too - it's annoying. I started out having to change the powershell colours in the Properties box; then I gave up and just started running sphinx-autobuild with the -N option which suppresses the colours.

[pradyunsg]

Thanks for reporting this! ^>^

Could someone confirm whether this behavior is visible with the current versions of Sphinx and sphinx-autobuild? I'm inclined to close this in a week or so, if no one flags this as still-a-problem.

[strefli3]

I can verify that is is still a problem on windows 10 in git-bash. Versions below:

Sphinx==3.2.1
sphinx-autobuild==2020.9.1

[jjyyxx]

Have this too. Use -N flag or change https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-autobuild/blob/274445aba3c4bc75458f1a4c6b83f1e501fc71d4/src/sphinx_autobuild/utils.py#L50-L52

to

stdout = subprocess.Popen(
    args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True
).stdout

seems to workaround the issue. However, both methods lose color for stderr.

[pradyunsg]

I'm pretty sure I fixed this when I reworked the output handling of this project. If someone is still seeing this, please file a new issue. :)