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From: | David Miani |
Subject: | bug#1279: color output from external programs not working by default in eshell |
Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:39:44 +1000 |
User-agent: | KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27-ARCH; KDE/4.1.2; i686; ; ) |
When running eshell, using an external program that outputs in color results in the raw terminal escape codes being displayed. For example, ~ $ yaourt -Ss emacs ^[[3m^[[1;32mextra/^[[0m^[[0m^[[1memacs ^[[1;32m22.3-1 ^[[7m^[[1;33m[installed]^[[0m ^[[1;34m^[[0m ^[[3m The Emacs Editor^[[0m ^[[3m^[[1;32mextra/^[[0m^[[0m^[[1msnd ^[[1;32m10.1-1^[[0m ^[[1;34m^[[0m ^[[3m Snd is the emacs of sound editor^[[0m ^[[3m^[[1;32mextra/^[[0m^[[0m^[[1mtexmacs ^[[1;32m1.0.6.14-1^[[0m ^[[1;34m^[[0m ^[[3m GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX^[[0m ... However, if the following code is used in ~/.emacs (code found at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellColor): (require 'ansi-color) (require 'eshell) (defun eshell-handle-ansi-color () (ansi-color-apply-on-region eshell-last-output-start eshell-last-output-end)) (add-to-list 'eshell-output-filter-functions 'eshell-handle-ansi-color) the output is correctly displayed in color as: $ yaourt -Ss emacs extra/emacs 22.3-1 [installed] The Emacs Editor extra/snd 10.1-1 Snd is the emacs of sound editor extra/texmacs 1.0.6.14-1 GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX ... I think that this should be included and enabled by default with eshell, as it doesn't change existing behaviour for non-color output, it only makes color output readable. I have a fair few programs that output in color, and the default behaviour made eshell unusable for me. In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-09-09 on p15200770.pureserver.info Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000 configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--without-sound' '-with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe'' |
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