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

[Yuan Luo]

I found the solution:
adding a line TERM=dumb in the ~/.dircolors file did the trick, as emacs inferior mode shell type is dumb.

Thanks for all the help getting me close to the answer!

Best,
Yuan

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

Am 9.1.2012 um 17:43 schrieb Yuan Luo:

> 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

Does it work when you use

       /bin/ls --color=auto /bin
       /bin/ls --color /bin

manually and directly?

My manual page explains:

       With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only when standard output is connected to a terminal. The LS_COLORS environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors command to set it.

There is a chance that LS_COLORS hinders ls, it's also possible that in *shell* buffer standard output is not connected to a terminal. The latter seems to be true for me on Mac OS X (10.6.8, Snow Leopard). So by omitting the "=auto" should make your aliases work.

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Greetings

 Pete

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