Re: how to fix IPython prompt in emacs shell mode?

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> writes:

> When, in emacs, I do
>
> M-x shell
> ipython
>
> everything seems to work, except that the prompt is
>
> ^[[0;32mIn [^[[1;32m1^[[0;32m]: ^[[0m
>
> How to get the normal ipython prompt, or close facsimile? Or is there
> a better way to run ipython interactively in an emacs buffer? FWIW,
> I've got
>
> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, GNOME, 64-bit 
> GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0)
> ipython 0.10 from ubuntu package
> python-mode 5.1.0 from https://launchpad.net/python-mode/
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>

These are ansi escape codes to set color.  You can tell the emacs shell
to interpret them with M-x ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on RET
You may add it on shell-mode-hook:

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

Notice that this works for any comint based mode.


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