Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Rob Riepel <address@hidden> writes:

  > 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.