Hi Pete,<br>Thanks for your quick reply, I linked ~/.emacs_bash to ~/.bashrc but the default color is still not changed. I read more about ~/.emacs_bash, it seems to me emacs sends the content from this file to the interactive shell upon starting. However, if I directly type &quot;dircolors -b ~/.dircolors&quot; in emacs interactive shell, I got the following result:<br>
<br>LS_COLORS=&#39;&#39;;<br>export LS_COLORS<br><br>where as the same command typed in a regular system shell would yield the desired LS_COLORS.<br><br>What could be the problem here?<br>Thanks,<br>Yuan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Peter Dyballa <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@web.de">Peter_Dyballa@web.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Am 7.1.2012 um 22:28 schrieb Yuan Luo:<br>
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&gt; This happens in emacs23, what am I missing?<br>
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</div>Put the useful shell aliases also in ~/.emacs_bash – this file is read in by the bash running in a *shell* buffer. (~/.emacs_bash can also be linked with ~/.bashrc. Maybe it&#39;s possible to customise the bash that it reads in ~/.bashrc.)<br>

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