Subject: Re: bug#49609: [PATCH] Add option for handling SGR control sequences in compilation-mode

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:53:54 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> No, these two terms are synonyms, AFAIK.  GCC doesn't emit any SGR
> sequences that other similar applications, like Grep, don't.  They are
> just sequences to produced colors and other attributes: bold,
> underline, etc.  The intent is to make the important parts of the
> output easier to spot.

Right.  Then we should just say "ANSI control sequences" here -- whether
they're SGR or not seems irrelevant?

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