Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh

["Ask" <ask.q@indiatimes.com>]

On Jan 30, 8:51 pm, Thomas Dickey <dic...@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> Ask <a...@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 5:25 pm, Phil Jackson <n...@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> >> "Ask" <a...@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
>
> > The  last one seems to work. But at some of the places areas overlap.
> > For example, few lines after the comments block are shown in the same
> > color as that of the comments block. A String is shown in different
> > color but few characters following the string are shown in the same
> > color as that of the string, etc. Colors are seen but do not seem to
> > be 'desciplined'.
>
> dtterm's terminal description says that clearing the background will
> not use the current color.
>
> (identifying the "ssh client" would help provide a better guess than "putty").
>
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I was using SSH Secure Shell 3.2. Is there any way I could get rid of 
the improper coloring issue ?
Thanks