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Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:49:36 -0000 |
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tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) |
Phil Jackson <nntp@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> "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
He's probably running PuTTY (set TERM to "putty").
None of the other suggestions are likely to be correct.
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