From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x shell, run 'emacs --help', get colorized output... why? Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:59:08 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297025982 14910 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2011 20:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Steven Thomas Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 21:59:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PmBhq-0002S2-5t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:59:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmBhq-00046e-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:59:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49121 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmBhU-00046W-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmBhR-0002tQ-Ih for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa01-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([72.167.82.90]:55558) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmBhR-0002sn-9q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:59:13 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 25884 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2011 20:59:10 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by p3plsmtpa01-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.90) with ESMTP; 06 Feb 2011 20:59:09 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so4272428fxm.0 for ; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.223.87.72 with SMTP id v8mr12057160fal.107.1297025948068; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.223.102.70 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 72.167.82.90 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78993 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Steven Thomas wrote: > They don't work > that well (e.g. matching "--whatever" in the middle of a line, but not at > the beginning) I don't use any of the shells inside Emacs at all (They work differently from my normal terminal emulator, which is annoying.), but the above is clearly intentional. In the middle of a line, "--whatever" is an option, but at the beginning it's just a command whose name happens to start with --. -PJ