Re: M-x shell, run 'emacs --help', get colorized output... why?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 17.01.2011 4:11, Steven Thomas wrote:
> I notice that emacs shell-mode colorizes certain strings in the output
> of a command you run. For example most (though not all) words starting
> with - or -- get colorized. You can see this if you run emacs --help. I
> don't see this goofy colorization in term mode or eshell mode.
>
> Can anyone explain what the deal is? A cursory look at the code in
> shell.el didn't reveal anything, but I'm sure that somewhere emacs must
> be deciding to add colors to the output.

term-mode and eshell-mode are mush different from shell-mode.
I can not help you.

Its settings are non common.

I also use

  (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

for 'shell-mode'. This allow correctly see 'ls --color' or 'grep 
--color' output.