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I'm using emacs inside a mintty (configured to say it's xterm-256color) terminal on cygwin. list-colors-display works fine. and colors are displayed in dired listings etc. Now I set the color for git branch current branch to be yellow reverse. However, neither shell nor eshell windows display the correct color; instead, the current branch is shown in default color. In an ansi-term window, or Outside of emacs, inside the same terminal, it displays as it should.

I have this in my .emacs: 

(add-hook 'eshell-preoutput-filter-functions 'ansi-color-apply)

Any way to get these colors to display inside the shell or eshell windows?

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    I cannot reproduce this in eshell with a graphical Emacs, having set git config --global color.ui always running git diff. Could you provide more detailed steps? Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 16:33
  • does my answer below help you or is anything about it unclear? Commented Oct 9, 2015 at 13:55

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Eshell and shell-mode both use ansi-color.el to turn ansi color codes into faces. ansi-color.el supports the following faces:

Parameter Description Face used by default 0 default default 1 bold bold 2 faint default 3 italic italic 4 underlined underline 5 slowly blinking success 6 rapidly blinking warning 7 negative image error

"negative image" is "reverse" and it is mapped to the error face. When I configure my repository such...

[color] ui = always [color "branch"] current = yellow reverse

...and run git branch I see my local branches, and the current branch is rendered in bold yellow. When I put point onto the yellow text and run describe-face I see that it is in fact rendered with the error face.

You can customise ansi-color-faces-vector to assign a different face other than error to "negative image"/"reverse".

You do not need (add-hook 'eshell-preoutput-filter-functions 'ansi-color-apply) to use ansi colors in eshell.

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