On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:14:42AM -0500, Saif A. Warsi wrote:
> I have been running Mandrake since its early versions and recently I
> installed 7.0. I am noticing some problems with emacs; specifically, I
> use emacs for all code development and when I compile I get error and
> other messages in the split buffer that appears at the bottom. In
> earlier versions, the messages were clear and readable whereas with this
> version the messages are obfuscated by Ctrl characters. Does anyone know
> what the problem might be and obviously a fix would be nice.
With no sample of the output to work from, I suspect that what you are
seeing is not control characters but efforts at colorization that do not
work because emacs presents a "dumb terminal" to the compilation
process. To get rid of the colorization, you should have something like
the following in your /etc/bashrc.
if [ "$TERM" = dumb ]; then
alias ls='ls'
else
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
fi
In the first clause, you should set the environment variable which turns
off colorization for your compiler and linker.
Again, that is only a guess.
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