Override the default behaviour of the Shell environment to integrate with Emacs.
** Force colours
Manually set the terminal type to ~xterm-256color~ for better colours on TTY Emacs.
When using Emacs on the TTY, the colours sometimes will default to 16 or 8 colours, making it look horrible. It's possible to override this behaviour on every platform by manually set the terminal type to =xterm-256color=.
#+begin_src shell
export TERM=xterm-256color
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export TERM=xterm-256color
** Setting up the $PATH
Ensure ~~/.local/bin~ added to the =$PATH= environment variable.
Ensure =~/.local/bin= has been added to the ~$PATH~ environment variable, this location is used frequently to deploy local binaries.
#+begin_src shell
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
** Starting Emacs by default on TTY1
When launching into a new session on ~TTY1~, if the display server is not running, run *StartX*[fn:1]. This will launch the window manager.
When launching into a new session on TTY1, if the display server is not running, run ~startx~[fn:1]. This will launch the window manager.
#+begin_src shell
if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ] && [ "${XDG_VTNR}" -eq 1 ]; then
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ fi
** Creating symbolic links
The system looks for the default shell profile under *Bash* at ~~/.profile~. Creating a symbolic link from this location to our configuration will override the startup behaviour.
The system looks for the default shell profile under ~bash~[fn:2] at =~/.profile=. Creating a symbolic link from this location to our configuration will override the startup behaviour.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(dotfiles/symlink "~/.emacs.d/config/profile"
@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Define a method to apply commands to the current call process, this is to avoid
