From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Colors through Putty Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:34:40 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3780f7cf-1912-47ac-819d-f2b3c77ab68f@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260924050 3783 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 00:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 01:40:43 2009 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 1NKhwX-0003HG-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKhwX-0005KF-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.4.103.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1260923681 21975 127.0.0.1 (16 Dec 2009 00:34:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.4.103.130; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 rndgate.rnd.clarion.com.my:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175596 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:70671 Archived-At: On Dec 15, 10:12=A0pm, "Paulo J. Matos" wrote: > Hello, > > I have to access emacs from a Windows ssh shell (chose Putty) and the > terminal shows absolutely no colors. > Is there a way to configure emacs to be coloured through Putty? Or, is > there a better ssh shell than Putty? IIRC the default configuration of PuTTY specifies vt100 for its terminal string (under Connection/Data in the PuTTY config). Changing this to xterm or xterm256 should result in colors appearing (the latter may not be supported on all servers).