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Author: Niklas Eklund <niklas.ekl...@posteo.net>
Commit: Niklas Eklund <niklas.ekl...@posteo.net>
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`dtache-nonattachable-commands` varia
Here a command beginning with `ls` would from now on be considered
nonattachable.
+## Colors in sessions
+
+Many programs such as `git` or `grep` don't show colors in dtache unless they
are forced to. This is because these commands only use colors and ansi
sequences if they are being run in a terminal, as opposed to a pipe. This
seting lets you get color output when you are running these programs
interactively, while still getting readable output when you are piping them or
redirecting them to a logfile. `Dtache` does not run programs in interactive
terminal, though, so these commands turn off [...]
+
+*WARNING:* =Dtache= only supports a few basic escape sequences, so this fix
/will/ mess up the output for some commands.
+
+First, put the following script into an executable file:
+
+``` emacs-lisp
+(setq dtache-env-smart-mode-block-list '(".*"))
+```
+
# Tips & Tricks
## 3rd party extensions
