From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help with M-x term Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:34:35 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87irlvqpk4.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <1152734523.744338.154800@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <877j2gycyl.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <1152873347.266110.78970@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <873bd3yane.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <1153206091.868784.104930@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153212035 25955 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 08:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 10:40:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2l85-0001uS-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2l84-00086x-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dpIQUezKVoGLipqMBhSX7CWc2cQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 38 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140411 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36040 Archived-At: "Sergei" 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au