Re: how to display that a term is inside emacs

[henry atting <snd@online.de>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> henry atting <snd@online.de> writes:
>
>> On X I have no window decoration, emacs starts without mode-line, menu,
>> toolbar. One of the things I use emacs is as terminal emulator
>> (multi-term). So far, so good.
>> At times I open up rxvt-unicode as terminal emulator beside emacs. Both
>> look rather similar, no decoration, same background- same foreground
>> color. 
>>
>> Is there a way to add something informative to the prompt (like the file
>> manager ranger does) or display somewhere else something like
>> `inside_emacs' for instance to indicate that this terminal is inside
>> emacs?
>
> TERM is probably different in the two terminal emulators.
>
> in M-x shell, TERM=emacs
> in M-x term,  TERM=eterm-color
> I don't have M-x multi-term
> in xterm,     TERM=xterm-256color
> I don't have rxvt-unicode.
>
> so you could have:
>
>    export PS1="${TERM} ${PS1}"
>  
> in your ~/.bashrc etc.

Ah, I see, this changes the bash prompt in urxvt, not in emacs. I did
not think of doing it this way but it's fine by me. 
Then again I use zsh, not bash (what I unfortunately kept a secret) -
it's a little more complicated but doable anyway.

Thanks,
henry