Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

[Beetlenut]

Hello,

sorry about this question. But i'm totally lost. I can't get colors in 
my emacs on Debian Linux 3.0.
Im .emacs i activated font-global-lock as found in the docs.
I have to similar systems with the same Debian distri. One system i have 
colors, on the other not. Search the FAQ and (part) of the docs but i 
think i need a livetime to read it all.
Good description how to activate color highlighting (which is btw 
activated as i can see in the settings) but my display is probaly run 
out of it (only in emacs).

Can anybody help?

Re: Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

[Claus Gerull]

Fotgotten to tell that on the same machine XEmacs just runs fine
and have as many colors as i wish.
It's the console and terminal sessions that are the problems.

Re: Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

[David Kastrup]

Claus Gerull <claus@gerull.nl> writes:

> Fotgotten to tell that on the same machine XEmacs just runs fine
> and have as many colors as i wish.
> It's the console and terminal sessions that are the problems.

Use Emacs 21.  Emacs 20 does not have color on terminals.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

[Beetlenut]

Thanks, David

It works, just did't find anything in the Faq or Readme's.

regards, Claus

David Kastrup wrote:
> Claus Gerull <claus@gerull.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>>Fotgotten to tell that on the same machine XEmacs just runs fine
>>and have as many colors as i wish.
>>It's the console and terminal sessions that are the problems.
> 
> 
> Use Emacs 21.  Emacs 20 does not have color on terminals.
> 

Re: Newbie: no color in emacs 20.7

[David Kastrup]

[Toppost rearranged.  People tend to start reading at the beginning,
then go on to then end, then stop.]

Beetlenut <beetlenut_nl@removethis.hotmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> > Claus Gerull <claus@gerull.nl> writes:
> > 
> >>Fotgotten to tell that on the same machine XEmacs just runs fine
> >>and have as many colors as i wish.
> >>It's the console and terminal sessions that are the problems.
> > Use Emacs 21.  Emacs 20 does not have color on terminals.
> > 
>
> Thanks, David
> 
> It works, just did't find anything in the Faq or Readme's.

Well, since I don't have Emacs 20 installed here, I can't try to prove
whatever by digging up the relevant passages.  But there are quite
more reasons to use Emacs21 than colors on the terminal, anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum