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 16:59:29 -0000 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: <12ruubhniov5ted@corp.supernews.com> References: <1170159601.079090.112030@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <878xfkpupt.fsf@main.mainworld> <12ruq8gqk48dvd1@corp.supernews.com> <871wlcfqjf.fsf@main.mainworld> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170178893 2590 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 17:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:41:33 +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 18:41:31 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 1HBwz3-0005Q6-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:41:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBwz2-0000LY-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:41:28 -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!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-08!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-01!sn-post-ams-01!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: 34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145166 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:40772 Archived-At: Phil Jackson wrote: > Thomas Dickey writes: >> 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 ... >>> 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. > Don't forget that Emacs parses the termcap entries too and on SunOS 5.9 > putty has no definition, so actually, it's much less likely to work than > the above list. Still no: xterm-color and xterm-256color would be defined in ncurses, which means he would have putty. (As noted, there's no clue regarding the platform other than "Unix/Linux" - unless you examine the profile in google, and see that none of the postings apply to Solaris - all are Linux or C). So assuming he's got a regular terminfo database (not one of the lobotomized ones), he's got putty. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net