Sorry forgot attaching picture. Here it is. Best, Yuan On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Yuan Luo 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 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 >> >> >