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Re: Emacs and shell display



On 2003-02-19 21:56, fbrian@nac.net wrote:
> > 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.
> 
[...]
> 
> So I guess to use emacs shell capabiliteis I should not use colorized
> commands???
> 

Sorry if you have discussed this already, but adding this

(ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

to your .emacs might fix it.

-- 
Nick



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