From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:49:36 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12ruq8gqk48dvd1@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878xfkpupt.fsf@main.mainworld
Phil Jackson <nntp@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> "Ask" <ask.q@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
He's probably running PuTTY (set TERM to "putty").
None of the other suggestions are likely to be correct.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 12:20 emacs 21.1 color highligh Ask
2007-01-30 12:25 ` Phil Jackson
2007-01-30 13:42 ` Ask
2007-01-30 15:51 ` Thomas Dickey
2007-01-30 16:31 ` Ask
2007-01-30 17:12 ` Thomas Dickey
2007-01-30 15:49 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2007-01-30 16:05 ` Phil Jackson
2007-01-30 16:59 ` Thomas Dickey
2007-01-30 17:06 ` Ask
2007-01-30 17:50 ` Mike Treseler
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