try 'ls --color=never' you have escape sequences (ie. colours) turned on for your 'ls' statement
to be true, i do not know, where to switch it off globally. it is set up in some very basic shell scripts to provide colour listening in xterm. m. On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:50:20AM -0700, Baloff wrote: > Hello > I did > $script somefile > $ls > $exit > $cat somefile > shows the output of $ls > > in emacs, C-x C-f somefile > the output of $ls, each item is listed between ^[[0m group of charactres > on both sided of each item. > > so if I have an item like myFile, it would look ^[[0mmyFile^[[0m > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
