When Í use the emacs in the shell mode, I get strange characteres in the prompt...
For example:

pedro@BuJecas:~/ruby$ ls
Abstract_Transaction.rb Login_Transaction.rb Transaction.rb main.rb*
pedro@BuJecas:~/ruby$

someting like that....

any help?
thnks

hi there,

IMHO shell is a poor option to emulate a shell in emacs.
you could try something like
or even
both will behave better with your colors definitions.
the "strange" things that you see is what emacs shell does with your color definitions from .bashrc or .tcshrc or ...
this is not so simple to solve.
i suggest a look at www.emacswiki.org
if you want to solve your problem fast, the solution is change to "ansi-term". Everything will run smooth.

regards

slackie1000

ps. i see now that is an old post. i just gave the answer to clean the 0 replies threads.