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hIsTerminalDevice can benefit from documenting Windows issues

Summary

Haddocks for GHC.IO.Handle.hIsTerminalDevice could benefit from the discussion of Windows-related issues. Namely, this function fails to recognise MinTTY terminals, used by MSYS or Cygwin. See discussion of System.Console.ANSI.hSupportsANSI for more context.

I hit this during debugging of https://github.com/NorfairKing/feedback/pull/7.

Proposed improvements or changes

Haddocks should suggest using System.Win32.MinTTY.isMinTTYHandle in conjunction with hIsTerminalDevice.

Edited by Bodigrim
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