From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help
Subject: Re: syntax highlighting will not work w/ Apple's X11
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:01:44 -0600
Organization: ipHouse
Message-ID: <m2oeigjcrr.fsf@Stella-Blue.local>
References: <mailman.255.1099420949.8225.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099422424 16263 80.91.229.6 (2 Nov 2004 19:07:04 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:07:04 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 02 20:06:59 2004
Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165])
	by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 1CP3zf-0000hX-00
	for <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:06:59 +0100
Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33)
	id 1CP47i-0007UA-PC
	for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:15:18 -0500
Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!brown.iphouse.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:OWwgrAJsrSLTy5Ghap+YAXCqHR0=
Original-Lines: 11
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Nov 2004 13:01:45 CST
Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iphouse.net
Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126318
Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>,
	<mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-emacs>
List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>,
	<mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21704
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21704

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

> Does ls -C work with your xterm?  If you can't get color strings
> there, then that would be a place to start.
>
> You can also compile emacs so it runs under X and not inside a
> terminal; color may be easier to set up in a situation like this.

This is what I did and Emacs displays color just fine under the Mac OS
X X11 environment.  Another option is to get one of the several Carbon
versions of Emacs which run natively under the OS X interface.