Re: escape characters in emacs20 shell mode

[Daniel Jensen <daniel@bigwalter.net>]

Nimar Arora <nimar_arora@yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm running emacs20 on a Linux (Debian - Woody/stable)
> virtual console. When I enter an emacs shell and try
> to execute some command - like 'ls' - the output
> contains a whole of junk - [[0m etc. These look like
> the escape characters which can control the display
> attributes on some terminals. I don't understand why
> I'm getting these. I don't even have a .emacs file
> yet, so I haven't changed the default configuration.

Try putting this in your .emacs:

(require 'ansi-color)
(setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode t)

Or, use eshell instead.

> I tried, 'E-x shell-strip-ctrl-m' but to no avail. I
> also tried to lookup the info on Emacs shell mode to
> see if Debian has created some funky shell mode but
> couldn't find anything.

shell-strip-ctrl-m doesn't remove those color escape codes. It does
exactly what the name suggests, removes ^M's from output.

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Daniel Jensen
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