Re: Unusual Characters in Interactive Console

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Colin Campbell-McPherson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to use irb, the interactive ruby console within emacs. When I 
> execute a command the output is not rendering correctly.
> I'm on OS X Leopard and have tried running emacs in Terminal, iTerm and 
> Aquamacs, all with the same results. I haven't found much on the net 
> aside from suggestions to change font, which hasn't worked for me.
> 
> Example:
> 
> ------------------------------
> irb(main):004:0> 1+1
> 1+1
> ^[[0;36m2^[[0;0m
> irb(main):005:0> nil
> nil
> ^[[0;32mnil^[[0;0m
> ------------------------------
> 
> should be:
> 
> ------------------------------
>  >> 1+1
> => 2
>  >> nil
> => nil
> ------------------------------
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Try `ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on'.

-ap