list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

[vijay]

Hi,
    Am using GNU emacs on solaris 5.8 box. When i connect to it using a
terminal applications and use emacs(tried 21.1 20.7 and other prvious
versions too) with TERM=xterm no colors are displayed even
global-font-locked-mode. When i check list-color-display it shows no
colors. But when i use vim it displays the colors. Hence i think the
problem is with emacs. When i changed TERM=xterm-color emacs would not
start complaining about TERM type. What should be done to enable colors
in emacs. Please help.

Thanks,
Vijay

Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.09.2005 um 17:38 schrieb vijay:

> TERM=xterm-color

... should be enough!

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Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "vijay" <vijaynerd@gmail.com>
> Date: 22 Sep 2005 08:38:33 -0700
> 
>     Am using GNU emacs on solaris 5.8 box. When i connect to it using a
> terminal applications and use emacs(tried 21.1 20.7 and other prvious
> versions too) with TERM=xterm no colors are displayed even
> global-font-locked-mode. When i check list-color-display it shows no
> colors. But when i use vim it displays the colors. Hence i think the
> problem is with emacs. When i changed TERM=xterm-color emacs would not
> start complaining about TERM type. What should be done to enable colors
> in emacs. Please help.

Please look in the file etc/PROBLEMS, it explain what could go wrong
(search for an entry named "Colors are not available on a tty or in
xterm").

Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

[vijay]

Thanks for the reply. It worked once changed TERM=dtterm

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Vijay

Re: list-color-display shows no colors in emacs 21.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.09.2005 um 16:48 schrieb vijay:

> Thanks for the reply. It worked once changed TERM=dtterm
>

So you actually were in Dtterm!

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