How can colored terminal output be disabled for sbt/play?

Question

I would like to disable the color escape codes logged from sbt/play. Is this possible? And if it is, is there a way to do it without making changes to the config - i.e. via

Answer 1

I was able to get colored output from SBT in Cygwin by adding:

-Djline.terminal=jline.UnixTerminal

Additionally I figured out that I also needed to add the following line to Cygwin.bat:

set CYGWIN=tty ntsec

After that is added SBT gives very nice colored output. Additionally I would recommend looking into Console2 as it can hook through Cygwin, but provides a much better interface in my opinion:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/