From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Examining the output of a shell command? Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:20:18 +0200 Message-ID: <876167ykwt.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435501253 28870 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2015 14:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:20:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 28 16:20:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRr-0001uR-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:20:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRq-0003SP-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRh-0003QH-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRc-0003oR-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRb-0003o4-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9DRY-0001ir-Oe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:20:24 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-88-158.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.88.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:20:24 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-88-158.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:20:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-88-158.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eo8cNlv3C/wQKIcTh0/WaxN+UnU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105246 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > Maybe the OP doesn't realize that some programs that output > escape sequences won't do so when run as an Emacs shell command. > > /bin/ls being a good example. > > In that case, run: > > /bin/ls --color > > as an Emacs shell command. I guess programs like "ls" check the TERM environment variable. Try: (setenv "TERM" "xterm") (shell-command-to-string "ls --color") Michael.