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Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:57:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, (continued)
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Nick Roberts, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Nick Roberts, 2008/03/15
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/15
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Rob Riepel, 2008/03/14
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/12
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Glenn Morris, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/13
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/14
- Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/14
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/19
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Rob Riepel, 2008/03/14
Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/12