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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 16:59:29 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12ruubhniov5ted@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871wlcfqjf.fsf@main.mainworld

Phil Jackson <nntp@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> writes:

>> 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 
...
>>> 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. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30 16:59 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
2007-01-30 16:05     ` Phil Jackson
2007-01-30 16:59       ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2007-01-30 17:06         ` Ask
2007-01-30 17:50           ` Mike Treseler

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