Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS

[zimoun]

Hi Pierre,

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 17:45, Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:

> Done, and it's fixed upstream!

You mean that INSIDE_EMACS is now correctly set with EShell, right?

Then, the Emacs manual is correct too in *eshell*:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
   Emacs sets the environment variable ‘INSIDE_EMACS’ in the subshell to
‘VERSION,comint’, where VERSION is the Emacs version (e.g., ‘24.1’).
Programs can check this variable to determine whether they are running
inside an Emacs subshell.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> Question: Which INSIDE_EMACS hack?

INSIDE_EMACS has been introduced as a hack because then:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Programs can check this variable to determine whether they are running
inside an Emacs subshell.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and the GNU tools can be better integrated with Emacs, IMHO.


All the best,
simon