16 Mar 2019

TIL: prompt matters to org-mode

A workmate just embellished some shell code blocks I'd put in a shared org-mode file with :session s. When I tried to run the blocks with sessions my emacs just froze up though. I found a post on the emacs StackExchange that offered a possible cause for it: the prompt.

I'm using bash-it so my prompt is rather far from the default.

After inspecting the session buffer simply added the following to my ~/.bashrc

if [[ ${TERM} == "dumb" ]]; then
    export BASH_IT_THEME='standard'
else
    export BASH_IT_THEME='simple'
fi

and now I can finally run shell code blocks in sessions.

Tags: emacs org-mode