Question

I have EmacsW32 and Cygwin shell integrated

when running cygwin-shell in EmacsW32 at prompt i see this

^[]0;~^G
^[[32mtroydm@ds-dev-025 ^[33m~^[[0m

instead of normal prompt.

if i run cygwin shell from desktop icon it’s working correctly

how can i fix this problem?

Answer 1

those are ansi color control sequences. if you are using shell-mode, then you can get emacs to interpret those sequences using the ansi-color support. add something like this to your .emacs file:

(require 'ansi-color)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)