with standard configuration shell does not interpret color escapes

[Mario Frasca]

Binary package hint: emacs22

on a clean ubuntu 9.04 installation, install emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2) and start a shell buffer.
check that ls is aliased:
$ alias
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

executing ls will outputs uninterpreted escapes.

I would expect ls to colorize directories, executable files etc.

executing this solves the problem.
      (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda ()
         (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)))

[TheArtTrooper (ctrueman)]

Glad I found your post! Thanks for the fix.

[era (era)]

I guess it's fair to mark this as "Confirmed", although it's not clear to me whether Ubuntu should implement the proposed fix.

Are there alternate ways to fix the problem? Making ls unaliased in shell buffers by default would of course obviate the need to cope with colorization out of the box, although I suppose some people actually like it.