From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Billy Patton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:30:33 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <45B51EE9.7070700@ti.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169534458 31974 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2007 06:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 07:40:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9FKs-00052u-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9FKr-0006zz-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:40:49 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!news.tamu.edu!news.smu.edu!news.ti.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lta0312850.dal.design.ti.com Original-X-Trace: home.itg.ti.com 1169497833 11333 128.247.97.20 (22 Jan 2007 20:30:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.ti.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2007 20:30:33 GMT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144946 X-Originally-To: John Oliver 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:40550 Archived-At: John Oliver wrote: > We have several users who SSH to a server with PuTTY and run emacs > there. Unfortunately, there seems to be some issue with PuTTYs terminal > emulation and emacs (emacs-21.3-4.10 on RHEL 4) which makes the cursor > jump around and do some weird things like that. They tell me that > hitting Control-L "fixes" it for a minute or two, but it'll start > happening again. I've gotten around this for some people by installing > CygWin and exporting the display to their machine, so they can run > Xemacs. But some people just want to stick with CLI. One user uses > Tera Term Pro, and is happy with its' terminal emulation, but TTP is an > ancient program that doesn't even support SSH... he uses it to telnet to > one ancient server, and from there SSH to the live machine :-) I know > about TTSSH, but that isn't the answer I'm looking for ;-) > > How can I get PuTTY and emacs to be happy with each other? Please note, > I'm one of those crazy vi people... I don't know anything about emacs. > If the answer is in some emacs settings, I could use more handholding > than "Just do the XYZ function!" :-) > I know this is not much help, but I had the same problem at a contract job. All I can remember is that I fixed it in my .Xdefaults. Unfortunately I don't have access to that company anymore and I don't remember how I arrived at the fix. I think I used groups.google.com to ask a question (a unix group). search for bpatton, might be of some help