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
