From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olive Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:08:23 +0100 Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Message-ID: <423d302c_5@x-privat.org> References: <84hdj7crf0.fsf@ripco.com> <423ca3f4_4@x-privat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111306083 27040 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 08:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 09:08:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCvTd-00051K-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:08:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCvkU-0002zd-Hu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:25:26 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: $$_ewcpdimnb7l24.x-privat.org Original-Lines: 30 X-Authenticated-User: $$s059zlu66nq1tvzvcvj6lkm_d Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129460 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25015 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25015 Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 19.03.2005 um 23:10 schrieb Olive: > >> XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? >> XTerm*backarrowKey: false > > > Of course these settings work -- but only here, on localhost. I think > Todd has the problems when GNU Emacs runs in a shell in a remote site. > So re-programming the local X server won't change his problems, he has > to fix it in the remote shell. > >> XTerm*eightBitInput: false > > > I wouldn't do that! The European scripts are 8 bit. > This setting does not prevent xterm to handle 8 bit characters properly (I usually wrote French, ...). It tell emacs to send "meta characters" as control sequence (see man xterm). To handle 8 bit properly; you must also add the following in your .emacs (for language that use Latin1 encoding). (set-terminal-coding-system 'latin-1) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-1) (xterm-mouse-mode 1) Olive