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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