Re: emacs 21.1 color highligh

[Thomas Dickey]

Ask <ask.q@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 5:25 pm, Phil Jackson <n...@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
>> "Ask" <a...@indiatimes.com> writes:
>> > I am using Emacs 21.1 using ssh client (windows machine) on a Unix/
>> > Linux server. Emacs opens the file in console itself which I am fine
>> > with. X-type of environment my ssh client is incapable of providing.
>> > Even though it is emacs *21.1*, it doesn't show the color higlighting.
>> > I did execute Alt-X font-lock-mode. All it did, instead of showing
>> > colors, made language constructs for exampke keywords, comments etc
>> > bolder. My console still looked Black & White. I noticed I was using
>> > bash shell and TERM was set to vt100.
>>
>> > What am I missing to get the colors seen ?
>>
>> I don't know which OS you are on but try setting your TERM to one of:
>>
>> xterm
>> xterm-color
>> xterm-256color
>> dtterm
>>

> The  last one seems to work. But at some of the places areas overlap. 
> For example, few lines after the comments block are shown in the same 
> color as that of the comments block. A String is shown in different 
> color but few characters following the string are shown in the same 
> color as that of the string, etc. Colors are seen but do not seem to 
> be 'desciplined'.

dtterm's terminal description says that clearing the background will
not use the current color.

(identifying the "ssh client" would help provide a better guess than "putty").

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