Re: help with M-x term

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

"Sergei" <sergio.pokrovskij@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim X wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Yes, I've seen solutions of this style before. Its certainly one
>> solution. In fact, under Debian, the default .bashrc has
>
>> # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
>>     if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
>>                 eval `dircolors -b`
>>                 alias ls='ls --color=auto'
>>                 alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
>>                 alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=longx
>>     fi
>
>> Which means ls colours are not used within M-x shell as it sets TERM
>> to dumb. This approach is I think more general in that it will
>> prevent ls colours from being used in any dumb terminal, not just
>> emacs' shell.
>
> Maybe that's true.  But actually there are more colored thing than the
> directories.
>
> So far I was unable to solve the color problem with the perl debugger
> :(
>

Have you tried the various commands/settings for ansi-color in comint
mode? I'm assuming the perl debugger uses ansi escape sequences
(despite having done a number of years of perl, it was over 7 years
ago and I never got around to using the perl debugger. 

Tim

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