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 09:06:49 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170176809.287499.184440@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1170159601.079090.112030@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <878xfkpupt.fsf@main.mainworld> <12ruq8gqk48dvd1@corp.supernews.com> <871wlcfqjf.fsf@main.mainworld> <12ruubhniov5ted@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 1170178965 2854 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 17:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:42:45 +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 18:42:29 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 1HBx00-0005uh-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:42:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBx00-0000ux-8D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:42:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.214.119.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170176815 26063 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2007 17:06:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:06:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <12ruubhniov5ted@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: a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.214.119.120; posting-account=0Ak7zA0AAAArmwslMryOgmdhMK3ZKZeR Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145168 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:40774 Archived-At: SSH Secure Shell 3.2 from Windows machine to a server that runs Solaris OS On Jan 30, 9:59 pm, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Phil Jackson wrote: > > Thomas Dickey writes: > >> 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 > ... > >>> xterm > >>> xterm-color > >>> xterm-256color > >>> dtterm > > >> He's probably running PuTTY (set TERM to "putty"). > >> None of the other suggestions are likely to be correct. > > Don't forget that Emacs parses the termcap entries too and on SunOS 5.9 > > putty has no definition, so actually, it's much less likely to work than > > the above list.Still no: xterm-color and xterm-256color would be defined in ncurses, > which means he would have putty. (As noted, there's no clue regarding > the platform other than "Unix/Linux" - unless you examine the profile > in google, and see that none of the postings apply to Solaris - all are > Linux or C). > > So assuming he's got a regular terminfo database (not one of the > lobotomized ones), he's got putty. > > -- > Thomas E. Dickeyhttp://invisible-island.netftp://invisible-island.net- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -