Thanks for the responses; i know this isn't an Emacs mailing list --- How can this be possible? The bloated Emacs with every feature known to humanity can't do the one thing that lil' ol' vim does with ease: give me syntax highlighting outside of X? That emacs FAQ does look bad ... i'll investigate further and let you all know what i find! Jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Etienne Grossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Emacs questions > Hello, > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jeffrey Knight wrote: > > > > Quick emacs questions: > > does syntax hightlighting work in emacs > > (*not* xemacs) -- font-lock doesn't seem > > to give me any pretty colors outside of X, > > and I can't for the life of me find anything > > in the documentation. > > > > I take the following, taken from the emacs faq > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text ), as a bad omen : > > =============================================================== > 34: How can I highlight a region of text in Emacs? > > If you are using a windowing system such as X, you can cause the region > to be highlighted when the mark is active by including > > (transient-mark-mode t) > > =============================================================== > > Nothing is said about non-X. Also, in the emacs-lisp manual, > http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-lisp-intro/html_chapter/emacs-lisp-intro_17. html, > =============================================================== > > X11 Colors > > You can specify colors when you use Emacs version 19 with the MIT X Windowing system. (All the previous examples should work with both Emacs version 18 and > Emacs version 19; this works only with Emacs version 19.) > =============================================================== > > Again, nothing is said about non-X. So don't stake your life > on colors on the console ... > > Hth, > > Etienne > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
