Merge branch '1.7'

CHANGES

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Documentation
 * #5083: Fix wrong make.bat option for internationalization.
 * #5115: napoleon: add admonitions added by #4613 to the docs.
 
-Release 1.7.7 (in development)
+Release 1.7.8 (in development)
 ==============================
 
 Dependencies
@@ -255,6 +255,15 @@ Features added
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
+Testing
+--------
+
+Release 1.7.7 (released Aug 19, 2018)
+=====================================
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
 * #5198: document not in toctree warning when including files only for parallel
   builds
 * LaTeX: reduce "Token not allowed in a PDF string" hyperref warnings in latex
@@ -271,9 +280,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #5211: autodoc: No docs generated for functools.partial functions
 * #5306: autodoc: ``getargspec()`` raises NameError for invalid typehints
 * #5298: imgmath: math_number_all causes equations to have two numbers in html
-
-Testing
---------
+* #5294: sphinx-quickstart blank prompts in PowerShell
 
 Release 1.7.6 (released Jul 17, 2018)
 =====================================

sphinx/cmd/quickstart.py

@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ DEFAULTS = {
 
 PROMPT_PREFIX = '> '
 
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+    # On Windows, show questions as bold because of color scheme of PowerShell (refs: #5294).
+    COLOR_QUESTION = 'bold'
+else:
+    COLOR_QUESTION = 'purple'
+
 
 # function to get input from terminal -- overridden by the test suite
 def term_input(prompt):
@@ -191,7 +197,7 @@ def do_prompt(text, default=None, validator=nonempty):
                         prompt = prompt.encode('utf-8')
                     except UnicodeEncodeError:
                         prompt = prompt.encode('latin1')
-        prompt = colorize('purple', prompt, input_mode=True)
+        prompt = colorize(COLOR_QUESTION, prompt, input_mode=True)
         x = term_input(prompt).strip()
         if default and not x:
             x = default