Re: Emacs and shell display

[<fbrian@nac.net>]

> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:30, fbrian@nac.net wrote:
>> When I run a shell in emacs <M> shell
>>
>> I get this garbled output...
>>
>>  [mbfurry@EULER:~$ lss
>
> If this only occurred for ls, I'd suggest telling us what "lss" is an
> alias for, however control characters (as shown by the box character)
> are even appearing in your prompt.

lss was a typo in my part.

> The control characters look like they're trying to color the prompt and
> file names.  This sort of colorization only works in some extended
> terminals such as xterm-color and rxvt.

My .profile uses colorized  options.

> Highly likely:
> Perhaps your prompt or shell is configured incorrectly to use color.
> Have a look at the values of $PS1 and $PROMPT_COMMAND.


contents of my .profile pertaining...

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then

    # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
    export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

    # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
    eval `dircolors -b`
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
    #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

    # some more ls aliases
    alias l='ls'
    alias ll='ls -al'
    #alias l='ls -CF'

    # set a fancy prompt
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '

    # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
    case $TERM in
    xterm*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
    esac

    # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
    # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).
    #if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    #  . /etc/bash_completion
    #fi
fi


> Somewhat likely:
> Perhaps your terminal type is set incorrectly.
> Have a look at the value of $TERM.

output of $env  regarding $TERM


TERM=xterm

> Less likely:
> Perhaps your locale or language settings are causing problems.
> Have a look at the value of $LOCALE and $LANG.
>
> Also:
> If you are using "ls --color", you should use "ls --color=auto" rather
> than "ls --color=always".

Done see above from contents of .profile

> Hope this helps
>
> --
> Michael Wardle
> Adacel Technologies
>


So I guess to use emacs shell capabiliteis I should not use colorized
commands???



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