From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Colors through Putty Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <11b141710912150612h2237e857k1ffb75dbc3ce5b59@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260890957 15810 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2009 15:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:29:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 16:29:10 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 1NKZKk-0002eE-Br for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:29:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKZKk-0000uN-42 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKZKL-0000tx-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKZKF-0000sz-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53316 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKZKF-0000sw-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38134) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKZKF-0008JA-V8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NKZKF-0008E5-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:28:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <11b141710912150612h2237e857k1ffb75dbc3ce5b59@mail.gmail.com> (pocmatos@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:70661 Archived-At: > From: "Paulo J. Matos" > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:12:33 +0000 > > I have to access emacs from a Windows ssh shell (chose Putty) and the > terminal shows absolutely no colors. It works for me. What do you have as the value of $TERM variable when you login via PuTTY? It might be set to something that dupes Emacs into thinking it's a terminal that doesn't support colors. Also, make sure the options on the "Colours" tab in the PuTTY configuration for your session are set up correctly, as to not disable colors. > Is there a way to configure emacs to be coloured through Putty? If your PuTTY session is set up correctly, and if $TERM says something sensible, the color support should happen automatically. You don't need to tell Emacs anything.