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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Rob Riepel <riepel@networking.stanford.edu>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:45:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803120445.m2C4jcDe015828@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311231514.B718249C0BB@daedalus.stanford.edu> (Rob Riepel's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:15:14 -0700 (PDT)")

Rob Riepel <riepel@networking.stanford.edu> writes:

  > When using font-locking in a terminal window (xterm and the like)
  > single-line comments are only highlighted to the first non-space
  > character after a space.  This happens in more than one language-
  > specific mode - I've tried Emacs-lisp and CPerl modes.
  > 
  > The bug does not occur when running Emacs under X, only in a terminal,
  > and only for certain terminal types.  The bug is present when TERM is
  > set to xterm or xterm-color, but not when TERM is set to xterm-16color.

A good way to avoid this, and the recommended way run emacs in a
terminal emulator, is to set TERM to xterm-256color.  All current
xterm compatible terminal emulators support 256 colors, when using that
your colors will look almost the same in the terminal as the do in X.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11 23:15 incomplete comment colorization in terminals Rob Riepel
2008-03-12  4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  6:44   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12  8:17     ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-12 13:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 15:07         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12 17:51       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13  6:38         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 22:24           ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13 22:44             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  0:21               ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-14  0:34                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  4:46                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-15  8:34                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  0:49   ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-15 14:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  4:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-03-12 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13  6:40     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 15:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 18:55         ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-13 21:52           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  4:16           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14 15:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19  4:02         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  0:50     ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-12 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier

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