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authorDan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>2008-03-19 04:13:46 +0000
committerDan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>2008-03-19 04:13:46 +0000
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`compilation-scroll-output' if you want to retain the scrolling.
** `font-lock-comment-face' no longer differs from the default on
-displays with fewer than 16 colors (e.g. older xterms and the Linux console).
-On such displays, only the comment delimiters will appear to be fontified
-(in the new face `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'). To restore the
-old appearance, customize `font-lock-comment-face', or use a newer terminal
-emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common). (This was new
-in Emacs 22.1, but was not described.)
+displays with fewer than 16 colors and dark background (e.g. older
+xterms and the Linux console). On such displays, only the comment
+delimiters will appear to be fontified (in the new face
+`font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'). To restore the old appearance,
+customize `font-lock-comment-face'. Another alternative is to use a
+newer terminal emulator that supports more colors (256 is now common).
+For example, for xterm compatible emulators that support 256 colors,
+you can run emacs like this:
+env TERM=xterm-256color emacs -nw
+(This was new in Emacs 22.1, but was not described. In Emacs 22.1
+this also happened for terminals with a light background, that is not
+the case anymore).
* New Modes and Packages in Emacs 22.2