On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Tim Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just tried to post the letter below to gnu.emacs.help-- some stuff
> about how shell mode doesn't work so well on my setup. It occured to
> me that this might be germane to the message I sent a few minutes ago
> regarding problems with rcp.
Let me guess. With your setup, file access does not really work, right?
> Would you have any idea of how I might remedy this?
Sure.
> Otherwise, do you suppose that this qualifies as weird enough shell
> behavior to confuse an otherwise tenuous rcp link?
It certainly could. I will add something to the texi about it, even.
It's that likely to be a problem.
[...]
> An example is:
>
> [0m[0mdesign[0m [01;32mget_page.pl[0m* [0mindex.html[0m
That would be ANSI color control sequences, produced by the GNU ls(1)
command. I would imagine that you have an alias in your .bashrc or
similar that does 'alias ls='ls --color=auto' or something similar.
This causes the pretty blue directories and red broken symlinks when you
do ls(1) under a VT100. Under an Emacs 'dumb' terminal which does not
speak ANSI/VT100 escape codes...
So, to fix this, run up a shell and try 'ls --color=none' and see if the
problem goes away. If so, you have a winner. Just track down what turns
that option on and everything will be fine.
Daniel
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All that I have written appears to me as so much straw after
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