From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Nikolov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: color codes in eshell Date: 10 Mar 2003 20:00:12 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047319845 5536 80.91.224.249 (10 Mar 2003 18:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 19:10:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sRiw-0001Oe-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:10:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sRfV-0007Um-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:06:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ip217-30.mnet.BG!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip217-30.mnet.bg (193.110.217.30) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1047319266 63738176 193.110.217.30 (16 [159246]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110953 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7453 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7453 I am very enthusiastic about using a shell from inside emacs but I find eshell has some frustrating weaknesses. First, the documentation is far from complete. Second, I have this problem with color codes: When I log in as a normal user everything is displayed correctly. However, when I am root color codes are displayed as numbers and letters in between the useful text. There is no shell history in root mode, either. I hope this can be fixed with some lisp code but sadly I have very limited knowledge of the language and the implementation in emacs. Suggestions? I am using Mandrake 9.0