Re: emacs (in color mode)

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Pete Harlan <harlan@pointofchoice.com> writes:
| > 	I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used
| > before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex
| 
| Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself
| for a lot of colour, and restart emacs.  (Assuming you're running it
| in an X window.  If there's a way to colour text on a console or in an
| xterm, I don't know it.)

As long as the terminal supports it, and the default xterm in Debian
for example, XEmacs will display font-lock colors in a text-mode
sessions, e.g. emacs -nw. It's not quite as good as XEmacs in it's own
X-window but it works.

Gary


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