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Re: GNU Emacs 23.1 and Cygwin bash shell - cleaning up display
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Paul Bibbings |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Emacs 23.1 and Cygwin bash shell - cleaning up display |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:16:49 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) |
pjb@inf...com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> Paul Bibbings <paul.bibbings@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> the equivalent in Emacs renders (After `M-x my-bash' && pwd) as:
>>
>> ^[]0;~^G
>> ^[[32mMe@MY ^[[33m~^[[0m
>> $ pwd
>> /home/Me
>> $[]0;~^G
>> ^[]0;32mMe@MY ^[[33m~^[[0m
>> $
>>
>> ... and that is a LOT of noise!
>>
>> The encoding for *shell-bash* in this scenario shows as multi-byte
>> iso-latin-1-dos with DOS-style CRLF.
>>
>> Any help in cleaning this up will be very much appreciated.
>
> You may activate ansi-color.
>
> M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on RET
>
> (You may do that automatically in a hook).
> However, this deals only with color escapes, not with positionning
> escapes or others.
> To avoid these, you may change the prompt.
> I use:
>
> export PS1='[\u@\h $DISPLAY \W]$ '
>
> in my ~/.bashrc
This is great, Pascal. Thanks for this. I have managed to get rid of
the noise and, also, it triggered me to discover that, having recently
moved my HOME directory, I had actually omitted to move over my
.bashrc. Having done so, and made a few modifications, I'm good now!
Regards
Paul Bibbings