On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:55:50PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Emacs 26.3 and adb 7.1.2_r36 [1], both installed via Guix on a > foreign distro (Debian 10) > > I'm trying to use adb via tramp (I'd love to be able to browse my phone > filesystem in Emacs) for the first time and I get a strange dired > buffer: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > /adb::/storage: > total 13 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80 05-31 13:04 [1;34m.[0m > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4k 2009-01-01 [1;34m..[0m > drwx--x--x 1 root sdcard_rw 4k 05-31 13:04 [1;34memulated[0m [...] FWIW, this looks a lot like escape sequences setting the display to bold (ESC[1;34m) before and resetting it (ESC[0m) after the file name. I don't really know what there is at the other end, but convincing it that you have a very dumb terminal might help. Cheers -- t