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Getting Pretty Emacs Colors in Screen

Emacs 22 has extremely nice color schemes for syntax hilighting. However, they only work in terminals that support lots of colors. By default, screen doesn't support lots of colors, so you're stuck with the plain old color scheme in emacs when using screen.

I recently found a good guide about how to make the pretty colors work in screen. The original URL of the guide is http://pastie.caboo.se/125089.txt, and I've mirrored it on xvx.ca in case the original disappears.

Happy emacsing.

Disabling the Annoying Emacs Startup Message

Since upgrading to emacs 22, I've noticed a couple of things. 1) the colors are really nice. Really, really nice. 2) Every time I start it, it shows me an annoying message about GNU. I like GNU as much as the next guy, but when I start emacs I want to see the file I opened right away, not some stupid startup mesasge.

The solution is to add the following to ~/.emacs:

(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)