From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Examining the output of a shell command? Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:08:02 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87mvziogyl.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435579830 27188 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 12:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:10:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 14:10:23 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 1Z9XtF-0004pN-JD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:10:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9XtE-0002Rh-QW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:10:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net vPCH/FrD+swBaAaafPvzow0o1ch5SPLB0vi89BfJjU1JWl0XNE Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZTE0YmFkMWI2NGM2YjYyMzYyMWY2MzVmMjRlNWExMjZkNDEzMGVjNw== sha1:sFOGXe1G1BwIttSdowcdx51+LJo= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212993 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:105279 Archived-At: Raffaele Ricciardi writes: > On 28/06/15 15:57, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $NORMAL") >> --> "[31m hello [0m> " > > Hence, how could I capture a colorized output in Emacs as in a Bash > session? This is an entirely different question, isn't it. In *shell* and other comint based modes, you can activate interpretion of ANSI escape codes for colorizing with M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on RET You can process the string with ansi-color-apply: (ansi-color-apply (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $YELLOW world $NORMAL")) --> #(" hello world " 0 7 (font-lock-face (foreground-color . "red")) 7 14 (font-lock-face (foreground-color . "yellow"))) (insert (ansi-color-apply (shell-command-to-string "echo $RED hello $YELLOW world $NORMAL"))) hello world ^red ^yellow --> nil -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk