Re: ansi-color.el minor bug

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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?


        Stefan