Re: comint fix for shell colors

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:06:28 +0100
> > From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > > Indeed, I think this change should be described in NEWS.  Could you
> > > provide a patch for that, please?
> > 
> > Please note that there's nothing new here, it was just a bug fix.
> > The very first message in the bug report mentioned above states
> > 
> >         In Emacs 24.3, comint-highlight-prompt allows ANSI colors to show 
> > through
> >         if it does not specify any colors itself. In Emacs 24.4, it does 
> > not, even
> >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >         if comint-highlight-prompt is the "empty face".
>
> Then how do you explain the OP's confusion on this matter?

He said that he "made the following patch against 24.5", so I guess
that's what he runs and that release still had the regression
reported in bug#20084 (see my closing message there).

Wolfgang