Re: weird emacs shell behavior

[Joel J. Adamson]

"phundamental unaudio" <unaudio@gmail.com> writes:

>    hello, when i issue alt-x shell the prompt looks weird like this:
>    [32;1mvytas@clt-84-32-234-17:~>[0m
>    with those unnesecery  characters in the beginning and the end. im
>    using 22.1.1
>    could anyone tell me what the problem could be?

Yes, I can tell you ;)

The [32, etc are control characters that indicate colors.  Try turning
them off in your shell's rc file or use "M-x ansi-term" to see the
colors.  Or learn to use Dired, which replaces much shell
functionality (I hardly use a real command line now).

Joel

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