From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bgm-rao@ieee.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell ls display Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:23:57 +0530 Message-ID: <5eolkl921zu.fsf@sdtclindt003.india.ti.com> References: <877iwwi8r4.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <873b7ihyz0.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166158494 728 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 04:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 05:54:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gv55t-0006Xi-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:54:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gv55t-0000ke-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gv55f-0000jU-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gv55f-0000i7-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gv55e-0000hz-RQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [198.47.26.145] (helo=soda.ext.ti.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gv55Z-0006TT-P2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from dbdp30.itg.ti.com ([172.24.170.39]) by soda.ext.ti.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id kBF4rx9T007846 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:54:10 -0600 Original-Received: from sdtclindt003.india.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dbdp30.itg.ti.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBF4rvhH009532 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:23:59 +0530 (IST) Original-To: In-Reply-To: <873b7ihyz0.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (Tim X.'s message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:22:35 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:39546 Archived-At: > So, I would say that either his system is using the system ls (not > sure what version of emacs or eshell he is running) or somehow his > terminal settings are screwed and don't handle ansi colour escape > codes (though I thought emacs 21 onwards default was to handle this). > Maybe the OP should try starting emacs -q to see if he gets the same > problem. If not, then its something in his .emacs that has screwed up > ansi colour support. > Tim Thanks very much for the pointers. I am running emacs 22. I realized that I had aliased ls to the system ls. The eshell version works all right. I will try and check what setting is making the system version render the way it does. - Rao