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runtime(doc): MS-Windows: Improve documentation about VTP support

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Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
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*os_win32.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Aug 06
*os_win32.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Sep 25
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by George Reilly
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7. Installation package |win32-installer|
8. Win32 mini FAQ |win32-faq|
Additionally, there are a number of common Win32 and DOS items:
Additionally, there are a number of common Win32 and DOS items in
|os_dos.txt|:
File locations |dos-locations|
Using backslashes |dos-backslash|
Standard mappings |dos-standard-mappings|
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probably get very strange behavior from Vim. Therefore Vim does not obtain
the default value of 'term' from the environment variable "TERM".
Terminal Colors *win32-term-colors*
The Win32 console supports 16 colors by default |dos-colors|. From Windows 10
version 1703 (Creators Update) onwards, the console supports 256 colors and
true color (24-bit) when 'termguicolors' is set and Vim is built with support
for Virtual Terminal Processing (VTP) |+vtp|.
Virtual Terminal Processing is automatically enabled if either the
'termguicolors' option is set or the 't_Co' option is set to 256. This
enables ANSI escape sequences for colors, improves rendering of multi-byte
characters and enables other terminal features in the Windows console.
The actual color rendering depends on whether your terminal supports VTP (such
as Windows Terminal or the modern Windows 10/11 console).
$PATH *win32-PATH*
The directory of the Vim executable is appended to $PATH. This is mostly to