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ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

This downloads standalone MSVC compiler, linker & other tools, also headers/libraries from Windows SDK into portable folder, without installing Visual Studio. Has bare minimum components - no UWP/Store/WindowsRT stuff, just files & tools for native desktop app development.

Run py.exe portable-msvc.py and it will download output into msvc folder. By default it will download latest available MSVC & Windows SDK from newest Visual Studio.

You can list available versions with py.exe portable-msvc.py --show-versions and then pass versions you want with --msvc-version and --sdk-version arguments.

To use cl.exe/link.exe first run setup_TARGET.bat - after that PATH/INCLUDE/LIB env variables will be updated to use all the tools as usual. You can also use clang-cl.exe with these includes & libraries.

To use clang-cl.exe without running setup.bat, pass extra /winsysroot msvc argument (msvc is folder name where output is stored).

ANSI escape sequences

ANSI escape sequences can be printed to a shell to as instructions. The below is a list of codes I have used often in my CLI programs and I find myself looking up over and over again.

A great article about it can be found here.

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You need to follow this procedure in order to share files between Windows 7 and Mac OS X on VMWare :

Go in your virtual machine settings and select 'Options' tab.
Click on 'Folder Sharing' and tick 'Always enabled'.
Click on 'Add' button and select a folder you want to share.
Confirm virtual machine settings.
From 'System preferences' on Mac OS X, select 'Sharing'.
Make sure that 'File Sharing' is enabled.
From top menu bar, select 'Go' and 'Computer'.
You will now see a folder named '/'. This is your shared folder between Windows 7 and Mac OS X.

This shows use cases where a simple regex like the one on StackOverflow cannot be relied upon for 100% accuracy in detecting comments in code.

Case 1 - comment-like characters within a string:

var foo = "There's no way to tell that this /* is not the beginning of a comment";
var bar = "There's no way to tell that this */ is not the end of a comment";
var baz = "There's no way to tell that this // is not a single line comment";
var buz = "Matters get much worse when there are escaped \" quotes /* inside the string. Definitely need a parser.";
var fiz = `And there is

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