From jjhartley at gmail.com  Fri Jun  8 17:30:21 2007
From: jjhartley at gmail.com (James Hartley)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:30:21 -0700
Subject: [Python-mode] color syntax highlighting?
Message-ID: <e81c31b60706080830v63ff0480o8d90f9d03317cd84@mail.gmail.com>

I've recently switched to Emacs & have been impressed with
python-mode.elfound at SourceForge.  Thanks to everyone involved with
its development.

However as a newbie, how is color syntax highlighting enabled?  Searching
through Google shows that coloring is already done within python-mode.el,
but I'm not seeing it when running emacs -nw within aterm on X.  Any insight
which can be passed on would be appreciated.
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From skip at pobox.com  Fri Jun  8 18:06:28 2007
From: skip at pobox.com (skip at pobox.com)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:06:28 -0500
Subject: [Python-mode] color syntax highlighting?
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    James> However as a newbie, how is color syntax highlighting enabled?
    James> Searching through Google shows that coloring is already done
    James> within python-mode.el, but I'm not seeing it when running emacs
    James> -nw within aterm on X.

I suspect that the ability to highlight syntax when using -nw (that is, not
starting an X-aware instance of Emacs) depends on the terminfo/termcap
description of available for your current $TERM setting.  For example, when
I start it with -nw and have TERM set to "xterm" on my Mac the only
highlighting I get is bold font for various things.  If I set TERM to
"color_xterm" or "xterm-256color" I get two colors, black and medium blue
(but lose the bold font).  That's nowhere near as much as I get when I run
an X-aware XEmacs.

-- 
Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/

From jjhartley at gmail.com  Fri Jun  8 18:45:56 2007
From: jjhartley at gmail.com (James Hartley)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:45:56 -0700
Subject: [Python-mode] color syntax highlighting?
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On 6/8/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect that the ability to highlight syntax when using -nw (that is,
> not
> starting an X-aware instance of Emacs) depends on the terminfo/termcap
> description of available for your current $TERM setting.


Thanks for your response.  I'll play with $TERM settings.
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