Re: ~/.emacs_bash setting PS1

[Ehud Karni]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:41:09 -0800, Samuel Karl Peterson wrote:
>
> I set my PS1 prompt so that ...  It looks like this:
>
> export PS1="[\u@\[\033[1;35m\]\h\[\033[0m\] \W]$ "
>
> Unfortunately, in Emacs shell-mode, this doesn't show up correctly.

I can't help you with ~/.emacs_bash problem, but I can offer a better
solution.  Add the following line to your .emacs and you'll have color
in your Emacs shell mode too.

(add-hook 'comint-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

Ehud.


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