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Hello.  Is there any way to make IntelliJ run a Kotlin program in a terminal, rather than the run panel?  The run panel does not interpret ANSI escape sequences, but my app needs to clear the screen and lay out text in the terminal.

If I'm remembering correctly, I think it's actually Gradle that doesn't handle the ANSI sequences properly. Perhaps try building a fat jar and running `java -jar` on it instead of running through Gradle

In my case I am not running the app with Gradle.  I am using the Kotlin run configuration type, and have tried running the app via both the Services and Run panels.  As far as I can tell, in both cases the UI control that displays the output ignores ANSI escape sequences.

How is one meant to run apps with a terminal UI via IntelliJ’s run button?

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Hi Nat, I couldn't reproduce your issue. For me, it's working. And it's a Gradle app.

Hmmm… maybe only clearing the terminal is the issue