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linjunhalida
linjunhalida

Reputation: 4655

Something wrong with Emacs shell

I use Ubuntu8.10 and emacs-snapshot. Running shell-mode on emacs and input "ls" shows escape codes:

screenshot http://lh3.ggpht.com/_os_zrveP8Ns/SdMmohKNjmI/AAAAAAAADB4/VlKpr5H_7ZA/s512/screen.png

How can I get the output I expect?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 10076

Answers (6)

steabert
steabert

Reputation: 6878

I wrapped my alias ls ='ls --color=auto' in ~/.bashrc:

case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
        alias ls='ls --color=auto'
        ...
    fi
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

This disables using color=auto in emacs.

Upvotes: 1

Mahesh Lavannis
Mahesh Lavannis

Reputation: 21

M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on

Upvotes: 2

Trey Jackson
Trey Jackson

Reputation: 74430

Expanding on vatine's answer, you can add that inside your .cshrc (.tcshrc/.bashrc) wrapped with a check for the environment variable INSIDE_EMACS.

For example (from my .tcshrc):

if ( $?INSIDE_EMACS ) then
   alias l 'ls --color=never'
endif

Upvotes: 3

danielpoe
danielpoe

Reputation: 3816

You can use AnsiTerm which does support colors or you can enable AnsiColor for the normal shell:

(autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

Upvotes: 44

viam0Zah
viam0Zah

Reputation: 26312

Furthermore, you may choose another shell: M-x term or M-x eshell. The former provides an interface that is much closer to a real terminal emulator than shell-mode (once you start it, you can get out of the mode with C-c C-j and get in again with C-c C-k). The latter is a shell implementation written in Elisp (you can use the common shell commands as well as evaluating Lisp code).

Upvotes: 5

Vatine
Vatine

Reputation: 21258

The problem is that "l" is trying to colorise the output and emacs isn't having any of it. Try the following:

$ unalias l
$ alias l ls --color=never

Upvotes: 1

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