Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <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.
  > 
  > 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.

Should we add a new entry for emacs-22.2 to correct these issues?
It might be too close to the release, but maybe we could apply the
change for the light background case?