Re: customizing dircolors doesn't take effect in emacs shell

[Yuan Luo <yuan.hypnos.luo@gmail.com>]

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Best,
Yuan
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Yuan Luo <yuan.hypnos.luo@gmail.com> wrote:

> All aliases in ~/.bashrc are listed in emacs shells.
> I already had have ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on set.
> execution of ls traces to /bin/ls
>
> Maybe i was not clear in the beginning, the emacs shell can show colors,
> but not to my customization, for example, I customized it to show
> executables in purple, it still show them in red. While a regular terminal
> shows the desirable purple color for executables (as in below, left is
> regular terminal, right is emacs shell).
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 9.1.2012 um 02:05 schrieb Yuan Luo:
>>
>> > alias l='ls -CF'
>> > alias la='ls -A'
>> > alias ll='ls -alF'
>> > alias ls='ls --color=auto'
>> >
>> > Anything noticeable?
>>
>> IMO it's not recommended to use the same symbol, "ls", left and right of
>> the equals sign. I recommend to use the full pathname of the ls programme
>> when this programme is meant.
>>
>> Are all aliases from ~/.bashrc listed inside GNU Emacs?
>>
>> Can you trace the execution of the ls alias?
>>
>> Have you tried to use the more ANSI compliant "term" function/emulation?
>>
>> It can be that you need to set up the *shell* buffer to actually show
>> colours (*term* has it activated by default, by its more complete
>> compliance to ANSI):
>>
>>    (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda ()
>>        (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)))
>>
>> Check your GNU Emacs documentation on this topic!
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>  Pete
>>
>> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
>> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
>>                                – Isaac Asimov
>>
>>
>

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