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Originally posted by lantern
Hi all,
Can someone explain to me what xterm-color is? I do most of my coding on Emacs over telnet sessions with my school's server, and I recently discovered that if I set TERM=xterm-color in my environment, then emacs will will send colored syntax highlighting over telnet.
OK, "xterm-color" is like "xterm" but with the color codes defined. I guess they're separated because some xterm don't support color and color codes looks bad on them.
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That's great, but it's suddenly stoppped working after my school made some server changes. Now Emacs won't even execute if my TERM variable is set to xterm-color. I get the error message: "emacs: Terminal type xterm-color is not defined."
What if you set it to just "xterm"? Like, maybe the termcap DB changed and no longer includes the "xterm-color" entry. Do colors work with other progs? Maybe the emacs default configuration changed and no longer has syntax coloring enabled (visit a file then type 'M-X font-lock-mode RET' to enable it for the mode of that buffer).
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Any advice?
Also, if anybody can recomend better ways to run x sessions from my home pc (WinXP) to my school's server, that would be great too.
Wah? X session? I though it'was a telnet session... Anyway,
VNC over an SSH tunnel using
PuTTY would be how I'd do it. But to run Emacs, i'd simply use PuTTY with the Emacs's TTY interface, not the X11 one.