Re: [kifer@cs.sunysb.edu: broken highlighting in compile]

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Would someone please investigate this, and ack?
>
> From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
> Subject: broken highlighting in compile
> To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>
>    Something is broken in compile mode so that highlighting doesn't
>    work correctly. For instance, doing grep on, say, "progr" gives the
>    following sample output:
>
>       grep -nH -e progr *tex
>       computation.tex:547:\label{def-^[[01;31mprogr^[00mam-complete}
>       computation.tex:555:\^[01;31mprogr^[00mamcomplete{P}
>      
>    Instead of highlighting, it shows ESC-sequences ^[01;31 .... ^[[00

I can't reproduce this in either X, xterm, or a text terminal.

Probably what is happening here is that the user is using a terminal
that is unable to handle colors, but the termcap entry thinks it can.