From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help Date: 20 Mar 2005 11:53:30 -0600 Organization: _ Message-ID: <84oedei4px.fsf@ripco.com> References: <84hdj7crf0.fsf@ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111341185 9460 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 17:53:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 18:53:04 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4ba-0007Qn-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:52:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4sW-0007m2-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:10:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!news.glorb.com!gail.ripco.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.ripco.com Original-X-Trace: e250.ripco.com 1111341207 20800 209.100.225.144 (20 Mar 2005 17:53:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ripco.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129491 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:25045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25045 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > From: comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) > > Date: 19 Mar 2005 14:27:31 -0600 > > > > The problem now is that Under "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X > > toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-10-16 on raven, modified by > > Debian" pressing C-h now deletes left of the cursor, and the only way > > to bring up help is M-x help. I've fiddled with various SEcureCRT > > settings to no avail. I at least get backspace to work right if I let > > it send backspace for backspace. > > > > Anyone have the magic bullet for this? > > Perhaps "M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET" is it? Woohoo! We have a winner! Doing that, along with setting SecureCRT back to the way I had it with "backspace sends delete" gets me where I want to go. As others mentioned, the mentions of X resources aren't germane to remote ssh use in terminal mode. Thanks all who replied though, and to Eli for the ultimate answer. Perhaps the Debian elisp customizations that load on this version of emacs here unset this while they were defaults on RedHat. Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/