From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Dickey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:49:36 -0000 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: <12ruq8gqk48dvd1@corp.supernews.com> References: <1170159601.079090.112030@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <878xfkpupt.fsf@main.mainworld> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170175249 20507 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 16:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 17:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBw27-0002oW-Ge for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBw27-0002mJ-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!192.87.166.29.MISMATCH!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 28 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145158 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40766 Archived-At: Phil Jackson wrote: > "Ask" 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 He's probably running PuTTY (set TERM to "putty"). None of the other suggestions are likely to be correct. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net