Re: Problems with ANSI colors in shell mode in Emacs 21.2.95.

[Andreas Schwab]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
|> 
|> [...]
|> 
|> > |> I'm not sure what Andreas Schwab's idea behind this change was.
|> > 
|> > This change is needed to get control characters passed properly to bash.
|> > Otherwise they are intercepted by readline, which is not what we want.
|> > 
|> > |> then the ^A and ^B characters don't appear anymore and things work
|> > |> fine again as they did in Emacs 21.2.90.
|> > 
|> > Do you have a custom $PS1?  
|> 
|> I do.
|> 
|> > Does it contains empty \[\] sequences?  Then this is a bug in bash.
|> 
|> It does have \[\] sequences.  They contain ANSI escape sequences to
|> set the color.  Do you consider this empty?

No, but it seems the \[\] processing is broken with --noediting.  The ^A
and ^B markers are internal quoting characters in bash strings.

Andreas.

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