Re: dirtrack (shell mode) not working

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 04.05.2009 um 18:44 schrieb Samuel Wales:

> On 2009-05-04, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>> Input `cd ..
>>>   [33m   [0m   [35m 03-Sun-19-12-32   [0m L4   [1;34m ~/Desktop/A$
>>>   [0m ' failed to match `dirtrack-regexp'
>
> The big question here is why manual matching works perfectly fine.
> Why would ansi colors throw dirtrack off when regexp search backward
> accurately identifies the path and only the path?

Your "manual matching" works on the cleaned static text data, while  
the mode in the buffer sees the text plus the ANSI Esc codes which  
are used

>
> It would be a shame to get rid of the colors in the prompt, as they
> separate its components visually for me in a way that makes them
> easier to notice.

Yes, me too! I would like to have other colours used for the number  
plate of my car. There are other options to display information on a  
desktop.

> The first variable sets a single color, while the second two,  
> afaik, only affect movement.  Is that correct?
>

Esc[value;...;valuem sets a graphic mode (colour, intensity,  
blinking, reverse). The value 0 resets, the value 1 sets intensity.  
The foreground (3) colours yellow (3), magenta (5), and blue (4) are  
set.

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   Pete

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