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&#39;t see this goofy colorization in term mode or eshell mode.<div>
<br></div><div>Can anyone explain what the deal is? A cursory look at the code in shell.el didn&#39;t reveal anything, but I&#39;m sure that somewhere emacs must be deciding to add colors to the output.<br></div>