Peter Dyballa writes: > port upgrade asciidoc cmake djvulibre [...] > since some dependencies there exist. And since some other ports might > depend on the newly installed binaries the MacPorts system is being > scanned for these. During this you might be able to see progress bars > appear. After this stage the colour is switched. I've installed a fresh Catalina VM with Macports, and the claim that the "port" command doesn't issue any ANSI codes while doing this stuff is incorrect. I instrumented the bit in ansi-color.el that does the fontification, and there's a whole bunch of ANSI-related sequences: