--help not working on windows powershell, cmd or gitbash

[bedge]

Describe the bug From CMD:

C:\Users\edgeb1>copyq --help
<no output>

From powershell

➜ copyq --help
<no output>

From Gitbash

edgeb1@RSCMW3512 MINGW64 ~
$ copyq --help
<no output>

To Reproduce

1. Run copyq --help from any available shell.

Expected behavior Should display help options

Version, OS and Environment

that said, windows 11, copyq 9.1.0

• Application Version (for example 7.1.0) 9.1.0

• OS (for example Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04, macOS Sonoma 14.4) windows 11

• Desktop environment, window manager (if applicable) windows 11

Additional context I am able to run copyq --add XXX to add things to the clipboard. I just get no output from any copyq shell commands

[bedge]

I found this: https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/2852#issuecomment-2417234014 stating:

Unfortunately, this is a known problem on Windows (I don't see a way to fix this).

See: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/known-issues.html#on-windows-copyq-does-not-print-anything-on-console

But the documentation link is sorely lacking.

How is this supposed to fix it?

This has no effect in GitBash, or CMD

Ref:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21719609/why-do-i-get-no-output-from-console-when-running-from-command-line
• https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/349
• https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/1182
• https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/499
• https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/2376
• https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/2852

[bedge]

Is this not indicative of needing to change the mechanism used to print to stdout for windows targets? I have not looked at the code, but there's usually half a dozen abstractions one can use for stdout processing, no?

[ajangir]

run this .\copyq.exe --help | echo

buffer error with windows if it works.

[bedge]

Yes, that works:

C:\Program Files\CopyQ>.\copyq.exe --help | echo
ECHO is on.