Color coding emacs being accessed remotely with putty

I use PuTTY to log on to my university's unix server and then start emacs and code in that. is there anyway to color code the code. Its C++ and ive been doi开发者_JAVA百科ng research for 2 hours and found nothing

The first step is to do a M-x font-lock-mode and see if that works.

You also might be running into a problem with the terminal emulation colors, as emacs does font-locking (coloring) of code pretty much automatically now. Try running emacs with --color=always and see if that gives you color.