bad font in shell mode

bad font in shell mode

[Brad from MA]

Hi,
  When I enter shell mode (M-x shell), I get a bunch of extraneous
characters printing out.  Instead of the bash command prompt '/home/user>'
it comes out as:

   ^[[1;32m/home/user^[[1;00m>

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,
Brad

emacs 24.4.1
Asus eee, Xandros Debian os

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Re: bad font in shell mode

[Andy Stewart]

Brad from MA <brad.l.miller@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>   When I enter shell mode (M-x shell), I get a bunch of extraneous
> characters printing out.  Instead of the bash command prompt '/home/user>'
> it comes out as:
>
>    ^[[1;32m/home/user^[[1;00m>
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
YOu need add 
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
for fix above problem.

You can try to use multi-shell.el, at
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/multi-shell.el

Regards,

  -- Andy

Re: bad font in shell mode

[Brad from MA]

Thanks Andy, that did the trick.  

I also added some configuration to change the colors to be more high
contrast (it defaulted to a neon-green, which was hard to see).  So in the
interests of helping others, here is my final .emacs shell-mode
configuration:

(setq ansi-color-names-vector ; better contrast colors
      ["black" "red4" "green4" "yellow4"
       "blue3" "magenta4" "cyan4" "white"])

(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)


Thanks to all who responded,
Brad


Andy Stewart-5 wrote:
> 
> Brad from MA <brad.l.miller@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>   When I enter shell mode (M-x shell), I get a bunch of extraneous
>> characters printing out.  Instead of the bash command prompt
>> '/home/user>'
>> it comes out as:
>>
>>    ^[[1;32m/home/user^[[1;00m>
>>
>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brad
> YOu need add 
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
> for fix above problem.
> 
> You can try to use multi-shell.el, at
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/multi-shell.el
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   -- Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: bad font in shell mode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.03.2009 um 23:03 schrieb Brad from MA:

>    ^[[1;32m/home/user^[[1;00m>

You don't need to colourise the prompt with ANSI. GNU Emacs has its  
own customisation.

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