Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh

[Phil Jackson]

"Ask" <ask.q@indiatimes.com> writes:

> I am using Emacs 21.1 using ssh client (windows machine) on a Unix/
> Linux server. Emacs opens the file in console itself which I am fine 
> with. X-type of environment my ssh client is incapable of providing. 
> Even though it is emacs *21.1*, it doesn't show the color higlighting. 
> I did execute Alt-X font-lock-mode. All it did, instead of showing 
> colors, made language constructs for exampke keywords, comments etc 
> bolder. My console still looked Black & White. I noticed I was using 
> bash shell and TERM was set to vt100.
>
> What am I missing to get the colors seen ?

I don't know which OS you are on but try setting your TERM to one of:

xterm
xterm-color
xterm-256color
dtterm

Then re-run Emacs.

Cheers,
Phil
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