Colors through Putty

Colors through Putty

[Paulo J. Matos]

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?

Cheers,

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Re: Colors through Putty

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
> 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.

Re: Colors through Putty

[Paulo J. Matos]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
>> 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.
>

It says xterm.

> 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.
>
>

Not only emacs doesn't show any colours but even though I can see
colours in the terminal when doing ls or so, if the lines is too long
it start eating the lines above and everything gets very messy.



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Re: Colors through Putty

[Jason Rumney]

On Dec 15, 10:12 pm, "Paulo J. Matos" <pocma...@gmail.com> 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).

Re: Colors through Putty

[Colin S. Miller]

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?
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Is it possible to install an xserver on your windows box? (MinGW and Cygwin are both open source;
there are others, some might even been free-beer).
This will allow emacs to open a full display on your windows machine.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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Re: Colors through Putty

[Paulo J. Matos]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Colin S. Miller
<no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
> Is it possible to install an xserver on your windows box? (MinGW and Cygwin
> are both open source;
> there are others, some might even been free-beer).
> This will allow emacs to open a full display on your windows machine.
>
> HTH,
> Colin S. Miller
>

That's an excellent idea. I have MinGW installed but I have no idea
how to configure it to do that. Any tutorials out there? Do I need to
get something like Xming or is it already distrubuted with MinGW?

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>



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Re: Colors through Putty

[Paulo J. Matos]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's an excellent idea. I have MinGW installed but I have no idea
> how to configure it to do that. Any tutorials out there? Do I need to
> get something like Xming or is it already distrubuted with MinGW?
>

OK, just managed to do it, thanks!


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