Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Stefan Monnier]

>> When using font-locking in a terminal window (xterm and the like)
>> single-line comments are only highlighted to the first non-space
>> character after a space.  This happens in more than one language-
>> specific mode - I've tried Emacs-lisp and CPerl modes.
>> 
>> The bug does not occur when running Emacs under X, only in a terminal,
>> and only for certain terminal types.  The bug is present when TERM is
>> set to xterm or xterm-color, but not when TERM is set to xterm-16color.

> A good way to avoid this, and the recommended way run emacs in a
> terminal emulator, is to set TERM to xterm-256color.  All current
> xterm compatible terminal emulators support 256 colors, when using that
> your colors will look almost the same in the terminal as the do in X.

The NEWS entry for font-lock-comment-delimiter-face in Emacs-22 is
insufficient I believe.  It should explain the effect of the
introduction of this new face and should point to xterm-256color as well
as other methods to recover the previous behavior.


        Stefan