Re: shell prompt undesired characters

[Dan Davison]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> writes:

> Am 08.04.2009 um 19:00 schrieb Dan Davison:
>
>> Where are the strange initial characters above coming from when I
>> run a
>> bash shell in emacs and how can I fix it?
>
>
> In ~/.emacs_bash you can set many things for a bash interpreter
> running *shell* buffer (similarly for sh, csh, tcsh, ksh, ...). The
> partial ANSI Esc code you gave looks like a reset/set normal of
> previous colour or effect setting. It might work better when you add:
>
>     (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda ()
>         (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)))


Thanks, but unfortunately that doesn't solve it. I've tried without any
~/.emacs and ~/.bashrc, on emacs22, and I still get those initial
characters. They're not coming from $PS1, so where are they coming from?

Dan

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