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color ls in shell or eshell or ...
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Joerg Schuster |
Subject: |
color ls in shell or eshell or ... |
Date: |
19 Sep 2003 10:24:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Hello,
I would like to have a color ls in shell mode or some other
(equivalent) mode. I found a 1999 talk between "pJ" and John Wiegley:
pJ> I have my linux system setup to use color coded output from "ls".
pJ> WHen I start a shell in emacs, and do ls, the output is filled up
pJ> with garbage (the color coding syntax, I imagine.). If you know of
pJ> a way to fix it, let me know!
jw> There is no easy way to fix this in shell mode. There are, however,
jw> two things you can do to get color ls displayed in Emacs.
jw> #1 Use term.el. This is very easy to do.
jw> Just type `M-x ansi-term`, RET, RET. You will now be in a shell
jw> buffer that support most of the ANSI escape sequences. It can
jw> even be used to run vi from within Emacs.
jw> #2 Use Eshell instead of shell-mode. It has it`s own implementation
jw> of ls which does full coloring. It is a bit more difficult to
jw> setup than running ansi-term, but it is no more difficult to use
jw> than shell-mode.
My problem is:
1. M-x term causes my emacs to crash. (Btw, it is the only way I know
to cause emacs to crash.)
2. There is an eshell manual
(http://www.emacswiki.org/johnw/eshell.html), but I couldn't deduce
from it how to configure eshell such that it is sufficiently like
other shells. I just cannot run most of the programs in eshell. One
example:
~/cl1/skript $ pdflatex ./skript.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
(./skript.tex
Error: pdftex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file
~/cl1/skript $
Maybe eshell doesn't know the right paths?
I would prefer eshell to other solutions. Can anybody help?
Thanks,
Jörg
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Joerg Schuster <=