From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Colors through Putty
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:18:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11b141710912170118k5bec4e07j696a01a4dd4849ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NKZKF-0008E5-I4@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:12:33 +0000
>>
>> I have to access emacs from a Windows ssh shell (chose Putty) and the
>> terminal shows absolutely no colors.
>
> It works for me.
>
> What do you have as the value of $TERM variable when you login via
> PuTTY? It might be set to something that dupes Emacs into thinking
> it's a terminal that doesn't support colors.
>
It says xterm.
> Also, make sure the options on the "Colours" tab in the PuTTY
> configuration for your session are set up correctly, as to not disable
> colors.
>
>> Is there a way to configure emacs to be coloured through Putty?
>
> If your PuTTY session is set up correctly, and if $TERM says something
> sensible, the color support should happen automatically. You don't
> need to tell Emacs anything.
>
>
Not only emacs doesn't show any colours but even though I can see
colours in the terminal when doing ls or so, if the lines is too long
it start eating the lines above and everything gets very messy.
--
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com
http://www.pmatos.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-15 14:12 Colors through Putty Paulo J. Matos
2009-12-15 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-17 9:18 ` Paulo J. Matos [this message]
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2009-12-16 0:34 ` Jason Rumney
2009-12-16 15:10 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-12-17 9:30 ` Paulo J. Matos
2009-12-17 14:34 ` Paulo J. Matos
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