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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ~/.emacs_bash setting PS1
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:09:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejbr93d9.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: o368x20w56y.fsf@pc14.cs.ucdavis.edu

On 2008-02-05 02:41 +0100, Samuel Karl Peterson wrote:

> I set my PS1 prompt so that it highlights the hostname portion of my
> PS1 string.  I use different colors on different hosts so I have a
> better visual cue as to which host I'm actually logged into (had some
> mishaps in the past with running the wrong command on the wrong
> machine).  It looks like this:
>
> export PS1="[\u@\[\033[1;35m\]\h\[\033[0m\] \W]$ "
>
> Unfortunately, in Emacs shell-mode, this doesn't show up correctly.

Do you know you can change that? Quoting (Info "(emacs)Shell Options"):

,----
|    If you want Shell mode to handle color output from shell commands,
| you can enable ANSI Color mode.  Here is how to do this:
| 
|      (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
`----

Sven


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05  1:41 ~/.emacs_bash setting PS1 Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-05  9:09 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2008-02-05 15:44   ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-05  9:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-02-05 10:27 ` Ehud Karni
2008-02-06 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 17:32   ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2008-02-08  2:57     ` Stefan Monnier

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