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Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:06:24 +0300

> From: "vijay" <vijaynerd@gmail.com>
> Date: 22 Sep 2005 08:38:33 -0700
> 
>     Am using GNU emacs on solaris 5.8 box. When i connect to it using a
> terminal applications and use emacs(tried 21.1 20.7 and other prvious
> versions too) with TERM=xterm no colors are displayed even
> global-font-locked-mode. When i check list-color-display it shows no
> colors. But when i use vim it displays the colors. Hence i think the
> problem is with emacs. When i changed TERM=xterm-color emacs would not
> start complaining about TERM type. What should be done to enable colors
> in emacs. Please help.

Please look in the file etc/PROBLEMS, it explain what could go wrong
(search for an entry named "Colors are not available on a tty or in
xterm").




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