From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Din" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Typing and pasting "special" characters directly in emacs in xterm? Date: 17 Oct 2006 20:45:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1161143106.299071.205380@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161146444 12423 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2006 04:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 06:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ga3EJ-0007gd-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ga3EI-0008Gs-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.165.169.155 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1161143111 10813 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2006 03:45:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:45:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=222.165.169.155; posting-account=rkboTQ0AAABA-UyV7AT_AbdxDawAYjyl Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142478 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38099 Archived-At: Hi Adam, I was run into the same problem. I was able to going through it by adding xtrem*eightBitInput:false xterm*metaSendsEscape:true to .Xdefaults file. After adding these changes you may need to run $ xrdb .Xdefaults thanks, Dinesh Adam Funk wrote: > When I'm running emacs as an X application (i.e. in it's own GUI > window) I have no problem typing =A3 and composed non-US characters (I > have a UK keyboard and the compose:rwin X option) and using X to copy > text including funny quotation marks (for example) and paste it into > emacs. > > But when I run emacs -nw in xterm or over ssh in an xterm, it tends to > blow up when I do these things: the desired characters don't appear, > the point moves around and sometimes bits of text get deleted. > > (I've tried googling for this but I apparently don't know the right > words to describe this problem.) >=20 > Any suggestions? >=20 > Thanks, > Adam