Installing Clink seems to make this work by magic, verified in cmd, Console2, and ConEmu.
http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
UPDATE: To get ConEmu and clink to work properly with the more recent versions, it was necessary to install clink into the ConEmu folder. See https://github.com/mridgers/clink/issues/339 and https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/270 for more info.