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Re: weird emacs shell behavior
From: |
Joel J. Adamson |
Subject: |
Re: weird emacs shell behavior |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:36:32 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
"phundamental unaudio" <unaudio@gmail.com> writes:
> hello, when i issue alt-x shell the prompt looks weird like this:
> [32;1mvytas@clt-84-32-234-17:~>[0m
> with those unnesecery characters in the beginning and the end. im
> using 22.1.1
> could anyone tell me what the problem could be?
Yes, I can tell you ;)
The [32, etc are control characters that indicate colors. Try turning
them off in your shell's rc file or use "M-x ansi-term" to see the
colors. Or learn to use Dired, which replaces much shell
functionality (I hardly use a real command line now).
Joel
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