bug#50462: 27.2; emacsclient syntax highlight failure

[RDS <rds1944@gmail.com>]

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>I'm not sure I understand what this means.  What is "agetty"?
Linux console login utility.

> And what do you call "emacs terminal"?
emacsclient -t (terminal mode) as noted in original post. Not -c option.

>M-: (display-color-cells) RET
8 : console
256 : xterm

>And what happens if you try to customize these faces to define the
>colors they should have?
It works! Tried it from the menu bar.




On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 10:02 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: RDS <rds1944@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 09:46:38 -0700
> > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 50462@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > 1) Using standard agetty, not emacs terminal.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what this means.  What is "agetty"?  And
> what do you call "emacs terminal"?
>
> > 2) M-x list-faces-display (after fault)
> > All OK except
> >   font-lock-string-face (black-on-black)
> >   sh-escaped-newline "
> >   toolbar "
> >   window-divider-last-pixel "
>
> And what happens if you try to customize these faces to define the
> colors they should have?  Or different colors?  Does that work, or do
> these faces fail to display any colors, no matter what?
>
> Btw, how many colors does this terminal support?  You can find the
> answer like this:
>
>   M-: (display-color-cells) RET
>
> And finally, does "M-x list-colors-display RET" show some colors
> incorrectly?
>

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