On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:54:01 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:31 -0600 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > G'day, > >> > > >> > I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color > >> > options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell > >> > session displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. > >> > Is there an option for telling emacs to handle escape sequences? > >> > >> Does the problem persist if you use `eshell' instead of shell? > >> (M-x eshell <RET>) > > There is an ansi mode that is made to hand escape sequences but that > should not be necessary. All recent emacs just work. > > That makes me think it is something in your environment. > > To get expert help I suggest you post on gnu.emacs.help Or on > gmane.emacs.help (same list).
Eureka! A search for "ansi" at gmane suggested using ansi-term instead of shell. That gave me color but previous line editing and such were different, which I'm not sure I like :-< So I looked in /usr/share/emacs/... for ansi-term and found ansi-color.el. Comments at the beginning tell how to turn on color within a shell. This looks like what I want! Thank you muchly. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
