How to filter M-x compile through ansi-color? was: Xemacs does not show lovely shell colors

Joachim> I am merely run 'M-x compile' and then compiling 'make -f Joachim> Makefile.blah' With this I get Ansi escape tags showing Joachim> up. This is good news; it means that the compiler/colorizer is generating the output you want. Unfortunately, compile mode doesn't seem to be derived from comint mode, which is why setting the hook doesn't work. You could try (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'ansi-color-process-output) OR (not both, I think) (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'ansi-color-apply) _in addition to_ (add-hook 'compilation-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on) Try the -process-output version first. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py