[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Colors through Putty
From: |
Paulo J. Matos |
Subject: |
Re: Colors through Putty |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:30:52 +0000 |
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Colin S. Miller
<no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have to access emacs from a Windows ssh shell (chose Putty) and the
>> terminal shows absolutely no colors.
>> Is there a way to configure emacs to be coloured through Putty? Or, is
>> there a better ssh shell than Putty?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
> Is it possible to install an xserver on your windows box? (MinGW and Cygwin
> are both open source;
> there are others, some might even been free-beer).
> This will allow emacs to open a full display on your windows machine.
>
> HTH,
> Colin S. Miller
>
That's an excellent idea. I have MinGW installed but I have no idea
how to configure it to do that. Any tutorials out there? Do I need to
get something like Xming or is it already distrubuted with MinGW?
> --
> Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the
> hostname to reply.
>
--
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com
http://www.pmatos.net