UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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.

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."

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.

Thanks,
Lantern

ask your school to see what their terminal types are. linux usually works w/o a hitch on linux boxen, try that as well.

Sorry - care to clarify what you mean by that?

I know that xterm is supported on the server, at least. Any idea why the -color or +cm option might not be recognized by emacs?

Anyway ... from people's general experience ... what's the best way to work off a server remotely from a pc and get the full color effect?

Not sure if syntax highlighting is supported in this tool or not (I doubt it is) but I use it rather than using a DOS telnet session (assuming thats what your using). Anyway, give TeraTerm Pro a try, you can set foreground and background colors, set window sizes and set a few other options. You can also download the SSH extension if you need to secure shell in to your schools server. Here is the site to get both TeraTerm Pro and the SSH extension --> TeraTerm Pro and SSH Extension By the way, TeraTermPro is free, and is even open source.

Good Luck.

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.

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).

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.