John Lenton <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, "tput colors" might be what you want to do to check (unless you > want to talk to terminfo from python itself). > In gnome-terminal: > $ tput colors > 256 > linux console: > $ tput colors > 8 > emacs shell: > $ tput colors > -1 > emacs term: > $ tput colors > 8 > > Bill, as a workaround instead of M-x shell, do M-x term.
Thanks for the info, and the suggestion, John, but I do many other things with the Emacs shell, besides snapcraft. I can't switch to Emacs term just to fix this bit of clumsiness. I'll see if I can file a bug report, though. Bill > > On 8 June 2016 at 03:03, Leo Arias <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > On 2016-06-07 19:46, Bill Janssen wrote: > >> When I run "snapcraft init" in an Emacs shell, I get this: > >> > >> ~$ snapcraft init > >> [0;32mCreated snapcraft.yaml. [0m > >> ~$ > >> > >> TERM is "dumb". > >> > >> Seems sub-optimal and hard to read. Some way to turn this off? > >> > >> Interestingly, "snapcraft --help" doesn't do this. > > > > Those are the colors we display on step messages. We should remove the > > fancy stuff if the terminal doesn't support it. > > Can you please report a bug in https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft ? > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > > > -- > > Snapcraft mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > > > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft -- Snapcraft mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
