font-lock in terminal vs X11

font-lock in terminal vs X11

[Stephen Eglen]

With the following small file, e.g. small.el:
----
;;; small.el --- a sample file.

(defcustom foo 4)
----

viewing it in a gnome terminal:

% emacs -q -nw small.el

versus an Xwindow:

% emacs -q small.el

shows slightly different font locking, e.g. the text "small.el --- a
sample file." is not in red in the terminal, but the semi-colons are.

Is the difference between windowing systems intentional?

(emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-03-31 on notch.damtp.cam.ac.uk"

Stephen

Re: font-lock in terminal vs X11

[Romain Francoise]

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Is the difference between windowing systems intentional?

Yes -- on 8-color ttys only the comment delimiters are colored, not the
comments themselves."

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Re: font-lock in terminal vs X11

[Richard Stallman]

    shows slightly different font locking, e.g. the text "small.el --- a
    sample file." is not in red in the terminal, but the semi-colons are.

    Is the difference between windowing systems intentional?

Yes.