Re: weird emacs shell behavior

[Emilio Lopes]

Joel J Adamson writes:

> "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

> 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.

No need to resort to `ansi-term', which is a full terminal-emulator.
You can have shell mode interpret those codes using
`ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on'.

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Emílio C. Lopes
Munich, Germany