Please help with syntax highlighting display

Please help with syntax highlighting display

[Soe Linn]

Hi
    I am a comp: sci: student and i log onto the school solaris cluster 
account to do my projects using PuTTY Telnet from my windows machine...I 
have modified my .emacs file to display the colors that i like on the Sun 
SPARC workstations on campus and it works fine....

    However, i want to see some color display in my PuTTY telnet window also 
when I am using GNU Emacs, NOT XEmacs....The best i could come up with is 
turning on the font-lock-mode and see the syntax in grayscale mode with some 
of the syntax underlined and bolded....

     I really do remember that I have got the colors to display the PuTTY 
terminal window once when one of my friends did something and I can't 
remember what he did....But I ran into another problem again with the 
Solaris workstations at the school after I get the syntax highlighting 
workingn in my PuTTY telnet on my Microsoft Windows because the syntax 
highlighting would not come up on the Sun machines anymore....

    I've been trying all kinds of things to get the syntax highlighting in 
my PuTTY telnet window...
I've already tried setting the XTERM on my Solaris account to these and they 
didn't work...
alias color setenv TERM xterm-color    <--- that's what some websites 
suggested to do and change the
                                                           .cshrc file to 
call  "color" at startup
alias regular setenv TERM vt100         <--- this is to reset it to normal 
when the "color" does not work


Here are the version of the softwares.
        GNU Emacs   --->  20.6.1

OS Info....(according to "uname" command)
        Hardward Implementation --- SUNW, Untra-250
        Machine Hardware Class    --- sun4u
        Processor Type               --- sparc
        System Release Level       --- 5.7
        OS Name                       --- SunOS
        OS Version                    --- Generic_106541-19


The strange thing is that when I log onto a Linux host using PuTTY, I don't 
even need to do
special things to get the syntax highlighting displayed....it comes up 
automically....

So, what do I do to get syntax highlighting available in my PuTTY Telnet 
window when i log onto Solaris host ???

thanks,
Soe L. Tun

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Re: Please help with syntax highlighting display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Soe Linn" <soelinn@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:13:59 -0400
> 
> Here are the version of the softwares.
>         GNU Emacs   --->  20.6.1

As I explained on gnu.emacs.help, this version of Emacs doesn't
support colors on a character terminal.  Please upgrade to version
21.1 or later.