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Re: font highlighting in emacs 22.1.1, os x build
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: font highlighting in emacs 22.1.1, os x build |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:38:36 -0700 |
"Eric Johnson" <darrel.eric.johnson@gmail.com> writes:
> I built emacs 22.1.1 on OS X (ppc). I was excited to hear that I would
> be able to run in both "aqua" mode and in console mode. However, font
> highlighting is not consistent between the two. In particular, the
> "aqua" mode seems to behave correctly (as per my experience with emacs
> 21.x), but console mode does not. It is sufficient to create a file
> named test.c, containing the following contents:
>
> /* this is a test */
>
> In the "aqua" version, all of the text within the comment will be
> colored to the appropriate comment color. However, in the console
> version, only the /* and */ are colored to the comment color; the
> remaining text is white.
>
> I am excited to use the latest version of emacs; however, I mainly use
> emacs from within the terminal. Consequently, I hope that a fix for
> this problem is possible, as otherwise I will continue to use version
> 21.x.
This only happens if your terminal supports only 8 colors.
Ideally, if you had a terminal that supported 256 colors then the
syntax coloring difference for emacs running in a terminal and in
windowing mode is almost indistinguishable.
I am not sure about your platform, but for GNU/Linux most recent
terminals support 256 colors, you'd just need to set TERM to
xterm-256color.