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acwarrie
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: emacs shell has strange characters

When I go into shell mode from within emacs by typing Alt-x shell <enter>, there are strange characters. For example, when I type ls in a directory containing a single file "testFile", this is the output I get: ^[[0m^[[0mtestFile^[[0m What is the problem here ?

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject:

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Code:

$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

You are seeing the color control sequences. You can either

Code:

unalias ls

and the sequences will not be used, or load ansi-color, and the sequences will be translated to colors.
See this EmacsWiki page for more on ansi-color.

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

Thank you ! It works ...

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