Newbie Emacs tip: This one is straight from the manual:
If you want Shell mode to handle color output from shell commands, you can enable ANSI Color mode. Here is how to do this:
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
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July 11, 2006