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Re: [h-e-w] M-x ansi-term error


From: Allen.Windhorn
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] M-x ansi-term error
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 18:02:29 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-emacs-windows [mailto:help-emacs-windows-
> >
> > It looks like I've missed the important clue: you are trying to invoke
> > ansi-term, is that right?  And the shell is just what Emacs asks you
> > about a program to run in the terminal?  In that case, the error you
> > see is because ansi-term cannot work on Windows, as it needs a Unix
> > terminal driver and programs such as stty to support that.
> >
> > Sorry I didn't spot that before: I was reading the body of your mail,
> > but missed the Subject line.

Lubos Pintes <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes, that's true. I am trying to run a MSYS2 shell under Windows.
> Of course it can be run, but it generates some fancy characters like 
> [;32xxx] etc.
> So my attempt was just an experiment "are those fancy characters ANSI 
> sequences mentioned elsewhere?".
> So I tried the ansi-term command.

You can get an equivalent for Windows, try Googling
"ansi terminal windows".  I think I have used ANSICON.

Regards,
Allen

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