Re: ansi-color.el minor bug

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > >> > Hi, is this a bug in ansi-color.el?
  > >> >
  > >> > steps to reproduce:
  > >> >
  > >> >     emacs -Q
  > >> >     M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on
  > >> >     M-x shell
  > >> >     echo -e '\e[31;1mfoo\e[;1mbar'
  > >> >
  > >> > Observed ansi-color.el behavior: "foo" is red and "bar" is bold-red.
  > >> >
  > >> > Expected behavior, as xterm/etc do: "bar" is bold-default
  > >> > (e.g. bold-black if terminal is black-on-white).
  > >> 
  > >> FWIW, "M-x ansi-term" interprets this correctly.  Are there two code
  > >> paths for interpreting the escape sequences?
  > 
  > > ansi-term comes from term.el, and ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on comes
  > > from a different package: ansi-color.el.
  > 
  > Could we reduce this redundancy?

Probably, but I wouldn't hold my breath.