Re: weird emacs shell behavior

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2007 um 18:54 schrieb phundamental unaudio:

> when i issue alt-x shell the prompt looks weird like this:
> vytas@clt-84-32-234-17:~>
> with those unnesecery  characters in the beginning and the end. im  
> using
> 22.1.1
> could anyone tell me what the problem could be?

Your bash prompt is creating ANSI Esc sequences to set colours or  
effects.

In GNU Emacs 22 you can invoke

        ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on

to make *shell* buffer interpret certain ANSI Esc sequences (you can  
also put it into an init file). You can use a file ~/.emacs_<shell  
interpreter's name> to adjust some settings for *shell* buffer. You  
would need to use that shell interpreter's syntax. For example, if  
your login shell is bash and you put

        PS1="$ "

into ~/.emacs_bash than you'll have a much shorter and monochrome  
prompt ...

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Greetings

  Pete

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