Re: Emacs and colors in compilation buffer

[Hemant Kumar]

Hello,
On 13-Oct-2013, at 11:28 AM, Hemant Kumar <hemant@codemancers.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I am using https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el for searching in directory and 
> the with colors enabled in ag it looks like, 
> http://cl.ly/image/2K35030n1C0T (Please note same problem exists with various 
> ack modes as well)
> 
> As you can see it doesn't completely break and ansi color sequences are 
> properly converted (at least some of it). In fact when search output is small 
> enough, it looks perfect. But lets say when I grepping something like Rails 
> code and then the result looks like:
> 
> http://cl.ly/image/2x012Y1L0e2T
> 
> As if the the color which was supposed to highlight the match has taken the 
> background!
> 
> I already have following bit in my configuration file:
> 
> (require 'ansi-color)
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
> (defun colorize-compilation-buffer ()
>   (interactive)
>   (toggle-read-only)
>   (ansi-color-apply-on-region (point-min) (point-max))
>   (toggle-read-only))
> 
> (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'colorize-compilation-buffer)
> 
> 
> Which  should fix this problem but it doesn't completely.  

Forgot to add, this Emacs running on OSX -10.8.5. Emacs version is, 24.3.50.1. 
Basically compiled from git head couple of months back.

I do use Color Themes but I have tried switching to vanilla look but results 
look all the same.

Cheers and thanks again
Hemant