Re: ~/.emacs_bash setting PS1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.02.2008 um 02:41 schrieb Samuel Karl Peterson:

> However, placing the above line into the ~/.emacs_bash
> file doesn't seem to work.

It can't work because shell-mode does not support ANSI code in the  
prompt. Even if you enable some ANSI-fication with

        (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

it won't. What you can do is to set in the customisation sections  
(variables and faces) of your user init file (~/.emacs) your prompts'  
looks (here for a prompt that will look like "pete 1234 /\ "):

         '(comint-prompt-regexp "^[a-z]+ [0-9]+ /\\\\ " t)
         '(shell-prompt-pattern "^[a-z0-9]+ [0-9]+ /\\\\ ")
        
	 '(comint-highlight-prompt ((t (:background  
"FloralWhite" :foreground "DarkViolet" :weight bold :family "-*- 
courier new-medium-r-*-10646-1"))))
	 '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:background "yellow" :foreground "dark  
red" :weight bold))))

If you're using *one* user init file for a handful of hosts you would  
need to put some ELisp code into the customisation to make GNU Emacs  
distinguish between the hosts and prompts.


BTW, you can also choose different colours for background,  
foreground, fringes ... that's what I prefer. This can partly also be  
done by ~/.Xdefaults-<hostname>.

--
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  Pete

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