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Subject: Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:18:52 +0100
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Hi Jack,

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:

> I've been trying to follow this discussion as I have observed problems
> with the linking characters in eshell. However, it seems I am having
> seeing different behavior than others. In both Emacs 26.3 and
> Emacs-next 27.0.50, running as `emacs -q`, INSIDE_EMACS is not being
> set in eshell so, guix describe looks like
>
> guix describe
> ]8;;file://lib-its13/var/guix/profiles/per-user/install/current-guix-66-l=
ink\Generation 66	Feb 07 2020 10:38:56]8;;\	(current)

That looks like a bug in eshell.

In general, when facing such a situation, I think we should check if
there=E2=80=99s an easy workaround to avoid gratuitously annoying users (li=
ke
the =E2=80=98INSIDE_EMACS=E2=80=99 hack for shell-mode), and if not, we sho=
uld bug
upstream to fix their software.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.