From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs shell: set TERM to ansi instead of dumb Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 15:42:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87sgmezjj4.fsf@yandex.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="128261"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Trevor Spiteri Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 16:43:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iYXYx-000XHB-Q0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59528 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYXYw-0000g8-MH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYXYQ-0000bx-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYXYN-0006SK-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:42:32 -0500 Original-Received: from forward105o.mail.yandex.net ([2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::608]:54744) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYXYM-0006OR-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mxback22j.mail.yandex.net (mxback22j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::222]) by forward105o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 70BE84200C70; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:42:26 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: from sas2-69645cccb3fe.qloud-c.yandex.net (sas2-69645cccb3fe.qloud-c.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:c08:bd8e:0:640:6964:5ccc]) by mxback22j.mail.yandex.net (mxback/Yandex) with ESMTP id ddOpFXo4Gs-gQeSpMOS; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:42:26 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1574523746; bh=kwtga/+e0aQl4UDBnAHSzv7DwM8tfQQv1f6wZRHvtUA=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Cc:Cc:Date:References:Message-ID; b=ZbbPo5I8iJuznaOQkrw7dDp+sI3Dry8a1ijhUZydI43L4I8/cWfMWU2hp6b6iuf0L ADzUj9kPj6YI1Banyn3RB5JxhJ1Rf1mK+kF3gik02yLViuuIFI9odlJix0R37/4TIm g0OJU1j8nlYPouS8OQ0MJEpFVduNcVvN7TPEh4AU= Authentication-Results: mxback22j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Original-Received: by sas2-69645cccb3fe.qloud-c.yandex.net (smtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id F9VYoMn16T-gOUuLPLn; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:42:25 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Face: -P+89ASh_wrs;AUGm`!l[}/o-lyK}5W.gq\fkJ{#d6Gu,hWrZNz::iMm5PJb} __A96]-LUrl)X=uF=V|\3-\9/sXvBs/H In-Reply-To: (Trevor Spiteri's message of "Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:37:09 +0100") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAMCAIAAACWSshgAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAA jUlEQVQ4je2UsQrDMBBDJedciLcM+e/Szyj0G/JdIddepsBtAdljtdxiyc9GNrcNpUBTeWH6AMB7 WZ7rKqaQ1hrMRDtqmqQYUorNM2q9X3kDQer3SarOobLjQITq/qapp8DcZS/wuyA6CBBhET1nGCNr bUAxH6T+Ov7FTBDuHfZczB6Ifde/meqY5J2TTgEOLasK+kYwAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::608 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242649 Archived-At: >>>>> Trevor Spiteri writes: > Hello, Since the terminal for M-x shell seems to support ansi > colors and cursor movement, would it make sense to set TERM to > ansi instead of dumb? I currently have an init_bash.sh containing > the line TERM=ansi, but it seems to me that it would be better for > that to be the default. > Regards. > Trevor You can also get colours if you just add "TERM dumb" to your ~/.dircolors file. Best wishes, -- Colin Baxter www.Colin-Baxter.com