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


From: PJ Weisberg
Subject: Re: M-x shell, run 'emacs --help', get colorized output... why?
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:59:08 -0800

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Steven Thomas <sthomas314@gmail.com> 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



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