Re: no color syntax highlighting in emacs over SSH

[Ajit Mylavarapu <ajitkart@stanford.edu>]

I have it working now. I installed tramp, and I use my local copy of 
emacs to edit remote files over SSH. It solves many problems.

Thank you all for the help,
Ajit.

DeeplyPipelined wrote:
> I am editing some .c files over an SSH connection. Syntax highlighting
> is working fine when I have the files on my local machine. 
> 
> If am using emacs on the TTY (as opposed to emacs in an X window), the
> problem is
> that I cant get syntax highlighting to work for files over an SSH
> connection. I know that font-lock-mode is on because I see bold fonts
> and underlined fonts in the TTY over an SSH connection, but there is
> no color.
> 
> The shell on the remote machine is a tcsh.
> 
> I should also mention that when I use emacs over X on the SSH, syntax
> highlighting works. It stops working in TTY mode over SSH. The remote
> machine has emacs 21.2.2 on a SunSPARC Solaris 2.8.
> 
> Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thank you,
> Ajit.