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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:02:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803190402.m2J42cbw021968@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv63vqu0t4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:01:18 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> >> When using font-locking in a terminal window (xterm and the like)
  > >> >> single-line comments are only highlighted to the first non-space
  > >> >> character after a space.  This happens in more than one language-
  > >> >> specific mode - I've tried Emacs-lisp and CPerl modes.
  > >> >> 
  > >> >> The bug does not occur when running Emacs under X, only in a terminal,
  > >> >> and only for certain terminal types.  The bug is present when TERM is
  > >> >> set to xterm or xterm-color, but not when TERM is set to xterm-16color.
  > >> 
  > >> > A good way to avoid this, and the recommended way run emacs in a
  > >> > terminal emulator, is to set TERM to xterm-256color.  All current
  > >> > xterm compatible terminal emulators support 256 colors, when using that
  > >> > your colors will look almost the same in the terminal as the do in X.
  > >> 
  > >> The NEWS entry for font-lock-comment-delimiter-face in Emacs-22 is
  > >> insufficient I believe.  It should explain the effect of the
  > >> introduction of this new face and should point to xterm-256color as well
  > >> as other methods to recover the previous behavior.
  > 
  > > Should we add a new entry for emacs-22.2 to correct these issues?
  > 
  > Yes, please.
  > 
  > > It might be too close to the release, but maybe we could apply the
  > > change for the light background case?
  > 
  > If noone objects, it's fine by me.

Yidong also approved the change, so I checked it in 22.2.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11 23:15 incomplete comment colorization in terminals Rob Riepel
2008-03-12  4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  6:44   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12  8:17     ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-12 13:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 15:07         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12 17:51       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13  6:38         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 22:24           ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13 22:44             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  0:21               ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-14  0:34                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  4:46                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-15  8:34                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  0:49   ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-15 14:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  4:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13  6:40     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 15:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 18:55         ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-13 21:52           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  4:16           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14 15:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19  4:02         ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-03-15  0:50     ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-12 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier

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