From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Shell Ansi Colors
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:32:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222695407.550370@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.20145.1222693383.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> OK,
> I think we are getting to the bottom of this. Apologies in advance for
> the long email, but there are several suggestions here about what to
> modify (and how), and my knowledge of shell scripting is clearly on a
> different league wrt the one of many people on the list.
> To make a long story short, this is the output of your command:
>
> ~$ env | grep TERM
> TERM=xterm
> COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
>
> and this is my .bashrc file (or better: the part about aliases and
> colors, which I think is relevant here):
>
> # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
> case "$TERM" in
> xterm-color)
> PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
> '
> ;;
> *)
> PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
> ;;
> esac
>
> # Comment in the above and uncomment this below for a color prompt
> #PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
> '
>
> # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
> case "$TERM" in
> xterm*|rxvt*)
> PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
> ;;
> *)
> ;;
> esac
>
> # Alias definitions.
> # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
> # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
> # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
>
> #if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
> # . ~/.bash_aliases
> #fi
>
> # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
> if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
> eval "`dircolors -b`"
> alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
> #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
> fi
>
> # some more ls aliases
> #alias ll='ls -l'
> #alias la='ls -A'
> #alias l='ls -CF'
>
> and this is my /etc/profile file:
>
> # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
> # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
>
> if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11"
> else
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
> fi
>
> if [ "$PS1" ]; then
> if [ "$BASH" ]; then
> PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
> else
> if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
> PS1='# '
> else
> PS1='$ '
> fi
> fi
> fi
>
> export PATH
>
> umask 022
>
>
> As to your suggestion:
>
>> in case you need a drop-in solution for emacs, you can use the lines
>> below.
>>
>> (comint-send-string (current-buffer) "alias ls='ls --color'")
>> then do a
>> (comint-send-input)
>
> please, do not laugh, but I am a bit at a loss about the way I should
> put this into my .emacs file. The part dealing with the shell is now:
>
> (require 'shell-command)
> (shell-command-completion-mode)
>
>
>
> ;; ;;Now I add another customization for the shell-mode
>
> (autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t)
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
>
>
> (custom-set-variables
> '(comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input t) ; always insert at the bottom
> '(comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output t) ; always add output at the bottom
> '(comint-scroll-show-maximum-output t) ; scroll to show max possible output
> '(comint-completion-autolist t) ; show completion list when ambiguous
> '(comint-input-ignoredups t) ; no duplicates in command history
> '(comint-completion-addsuffix t) ; insert space/slash after
> file completion
> )
>
>
>
> ; make completion buffers disappear after 3 seconds.
> (add-hook 'completion-setup-hook
> (lambda () (run-at-time 3 nil
> (lambda () (delete-windows-on "*Completions*")))))
>
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook '(lambda () (toggle-truncate-lines 1)))
> (setq comint-prompt-read-only t)
>
>
> What should I actually add to this?
> Hope this is the conclusion, thanks again to everybody.
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
> 2008/9/29 Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>:
>> Lorenzo> So it looks like there could be a problem with the TERM
>> Lorenzo> environment variable (but do not ask me what this stands
>> Lorenzo> for). I suppose (hope?) this is a one-liner for somebody
>> Lorenzo> really knowledgeable about emacs. Kind Regards
>>
>> in case you need a drop-in solution for emacs, you can use the lines
>> below.
>>
>> (comint-send-string (current-buffer) "alias ls='ls --color'")
>> then do a
>> (comint-send-input)
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>>
>
>
>
Leave your .emacs as it is and create a file '~/.emacs_bash', insert
the following lines, save and you should have colors.
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
eval "`dircolors -b`"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-29 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 19:27 Emacs Shell Ansi Colors Lorenzo Isella
2008-09-28 21:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <F725F550-369F-4C9A-BACA-D13E30D70FC2@Web.DE>
2008-09-29 10:48 ` Lorenzo Isella
2008-09-29 10:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-09-29 12:37 ` Paul R
2008-09-29 12:45 ` Paul R
2008-09-29 13:02 ` Lorenzo Isella
2008-09-29 13:40 ` Paul R
2008-09-29 14:32 ` Lorenzo Isella
[not found] ` <mailman.20145.1222693383.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-29 13:32 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2008-09-29 16:08 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.20143.1222686216.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-29 14:14 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.20146.1222694164.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-29 14:22 ` Richard Riley
2008-09-29 14:57 ` Paul R
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