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Post title: Unwanted escape sequences in shell mode that are NOT due to colorizing-attempts (see update below)

Any idea what can cause (unwanted) escape sequences to continue showing up in the Emacs shell prompt (i.e., M-x shell) despite:

(i) removing all color-related sequences from prompt definitions in the appropriate config files and

(ii) including the following in my init.el file: 

(autoload 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on "ansi-color" nil t)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)

For example, this is what my shell prompt looks like (in Emacs)...

^[[J%

...but this is how I've defined the prompt in my .zshrc file (I could be wrong but I suspect the issue is shell agnostic, i.e., I don't think it's specific to zsh).

PROMPT='%% '

Similarly, this is what my GHCi interpreter prompt (i.e., Haskell REPL) looks like:

^[[?1h^[=λ:

...when this is the definition I've included in the ghci.conf file: 

:set prompt "λ: "

Running Emacs 24.4 on Lubuntu 14.04 with zsh as default shell. (All zsh features are working correctly in Emacs; this seems like a cosmetic issue.)

UPDATE: Solved
Shoddy attention to detail on my part; the following line in my .zshrc profile was responsible:

export TERM=xterm-256color
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Actually, it was shoddy attention to detail on my part; the following line in my .zshrc profile was responsible:

export TERM=xterm-256color
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