From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ask" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh Date: 30 Jan 2007 08:31:57 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170174717.746773.20440@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1170159601.079090.112030@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <878xfkpupt.fsf@main.mainworld> <1170164574.673194.213300@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <12ruqb5gk45rpf0@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170175367 20969 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 16:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 17:42:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBw3S-0003SU-19 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBw3R-0003GJ-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:41:57 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.214.119.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170174732 20781 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2007 16:32:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:32:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <12ruqb5gk45rpf0@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.214.119.120; posting-account=0Ak7zA0AAAArmwslMryOgmdhMK3ZKZeR Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145163 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40769 Archived-At: On Jan 30, 8:51 pm, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Ask wrote: > > On Jan 30, 5:25 pm, Phil Jackson wrote: > >> "Ask" 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"). > > -- > Thomas E. Dickeyhttp://invisible-island.netftp://invisible-island.net- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I was using SSH Secure Shell 3.2. Is there any way I could get rid of the improper coloring issue ? Thanks