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Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:49:36 -0000
User-agent: 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.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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