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I use Emacs 24 and want to change a color of dirs and files while I'm in shell-mode (ls command). Ideally - depending on rights of the file.

How can i do this?

I tried playing with

(setq ansi-color-names-vector ["black" "red" "green" "yellow" "PaleBlue" "magenta" "cyan" "white"]) (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

But I think it doesn't work for me.
I have solarized color scheme now. But I do not want to change it's colors, only for shell-mode.

Edit:
When I change colors for my system terminal (using .dircolrs file in my home directory) - emacs reads it, BUT it(emacs) slightly changes colors - it makes a color a bit darker or lighter in shell-mode.

And I don't know why Emacs does it.

Different dirs colors (games, Public...:
This is system terminal: enter image description here
And this is Emacs: enter image description here

These are changed colors, with default colors and solarized-theme Emacs made blue dirs on a blue background.

I understand that it's not a big problem to find a hack, just want to know why Emacs changes colors a bit.

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  • My emacs shell uses the font colors set by zsh with the emacs buffer background color. Is this not what your seeing? Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 13:22
  • @AndrewMyers, I think yes, then I need to change colors in bash config. Actually I wanted to know if it can be done in emacs. Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 13:34
  • I see, if you do M-x customize-group ansi-colors do you get a customizable group? I see the ansi-color-names-vector there. Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 13:57
  • @AndrewMyers, yes just checked them, but emacs ignores them, still in shell-mode there are different colors, see edit.. Commented Dec 7, 2012 at 16:07

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M-x customize-variable RET ansi-color-names-vector RET

Existing text will not have been affected, but newly printed text (even in the same shell buffer) will show the new colors.

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I think this is the best answer. After customizing the variable and saving it you can inspect your .emacs file to see how the customization was performed and saved.
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Somewhere I found this, and it helped me (I'm a complete newbie, but I thought thatsetq ansi-color-names-vector would be enough):

(setq ansi-color-names-vector ["black" "tomato" "PaleGreen2" "gold1" "DeepSkyBlue1" "MediumOrchid1" "cyan" "white"]) (setq ansi-color-map (ansi-color-make-color-map)) ;; helped line

Now ansi-color-names-vector works in shell.

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do you know by any chance if there is a way to interactively test those color mappings? I.e. instead of having to restart shell after every change
@dolzenko, Don't know how to do that
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Here is what I use to set Solarized colors for emacs. I went ahead and posted my whole ansi-term config in case any other settings might be useful.

(use-package ansi-term :defer t :init (progn ;; ;; Use variable width font faces in current buffer (defun my-buffer-face-mode-variable () ;; "Set font to a variable width (proportional) fonts in current buffer" (interactive) (setq buffer-face-mode-face '(:family "Menlo For Powerline" :height 100)) (text-scale-adjust 1) (buffer-face-mode)) (setq system-uses-terminfo nil) (add-hook 'term-mode-hook '(lambda () (linum-mode 0) (term-set-escape-char ?\C-z) (term-set-escape-char ?\C-x) (define-key term-raw-map "\C-c" 'term-interrupt-subjob) (define-key term-raw-map (kbd "M-x") 'execute-extended-command) (setq autopair-dont-activate t) (setq ac-auto-start nil) (visual-line-mode -1) ;; (my-buffer-face-mode-variable) )) (defun my-term-paste (&optional string) (interactive) (process-send-string (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) (if string string (current-kill 0)))) (defun my-term-pasteboard-paste () (interactive) (process-send-string (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) (ns-get-pasteboard))) (add-hook 'term-exec-hook '(lambda () (set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8-unix 'utf-8-unix) (goto-address-mode) (define-key term-raw-map (kbd "C-y") 'my-term-paste) (define-key term-raw-map (kbd "s-v") 'my-term-pasteboard-paste) (let ((base03 "#002b36") (base02 "#073642") (base01 "#586e75") (base00 "#657b83") (base0 "#839496") (base1 "#93a1a1") (base2 "#eee8d5") (base3 "#fdf6e3") (yellow "#b58900") (orange "#cb4b16") (red "#dc322f") (magenta "#d33682") (violet "#6c71c4") (blue "#268bd2") (cyan "#2aa198") (green "#859900")) (setq ansi-term-color-vector (vconcat `(unspecified ,base02 ,red ,green ,yellow ,blue ,magenta ,cyan ,base2))))))
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thanks for the answer, it would be very helpful for me, but I just found what solved the problem (at least I can manually set colors now)

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