On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Perry Smith wrote:

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> On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Warren Harris wrote:
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>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
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>>> I wish I could play with it and see what you are talking about and experiment around some.
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>>> What is TERM set to?  You might be able to set it do something more fitting to get better colors.
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>> TERM is set to xterm-color.
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> I'm trying to recreate this as close as I can... your original post said you do
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> "emacsclient -nw"
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> but that would tie back to an existing emacs (I think).  Is that part correct?

Yes. I previously ran emacs --daemon.
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> Also, what version of emacs is on Ubuntu?  (And just for curiosity, what version
> do you have on your Mac?
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GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-11-23 on yellow, modified by Debian