Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh

["Ask" <ask.q@indiatimes.com>]

On Jan 30, 5:25 pm, Phil Jackson <n...@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> "Ask" <a...@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
>

The  last one seems to work. But at some of the places areas overlap. 
For example, few lines after the comments block are shown in the same 
color as that of the comments block. A String is shown in different 
color but few characters following the string are shown in the same 
color as that of the string, etc. Colors are seen but do not seem to 
be 'desciplined'.