bug#49609: [PATCH] Add option for handling SGR control sequences in compilation-mode

[Ivan Sokolov]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> No, these two terms are synonyms, AFAIK.  GCC doesn't emit any SGR
>> sequences that other similar applications, like Grep, don't.  They are
>> just sequences to produced colors and other attributes: bold,
>> underline, etc.  The intent is to make the important parts of the
>> output easier to spot.
>
> Right.  Then we should just say "ANSI control sequences" here -- whether
> they're SGR or not seems irrelevant?

SGR is one particular control sequence, the ansi-colors package does not
handle others.