On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Warren Harris wrote:

On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Perry Smith wrote:

I wish I could play with it and see what you are talking about and experiment around some.

What is TERM set to?  You might be able to set it do something more fitting to get better colors.

TERM is set to xterm-color.

I'm trying to recreate this as close as I can... your original post said you do

"emacsclient -nw"

but that would tie back to an existing emacs (I think).  Is that part correct?

Also, what version of emacs is on Ubuntu?  (And just for curiosity, what version

do you have on your Mac?