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From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:20:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wlgo5sf.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnerkspv.sai.joliver@ns.sdsitehosting.net

John Oliver <joliver@john-oliver.net> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:06:29 +0000, Springfield wrote:
>> Putty and Emacs get along ok, I expect the problem is with the terminal
>> type that Emacs is using. What is the value of (getenv "TERM") from
>> within Emacs? What OS is the host running?
>
> RHEL4
>
> I don't know how to "getenv TERM" inside of emacs... I'm a vi user :-D
> I just had to Google to figure out how to get out of the damn thing :-)

Do ESC : (getenv "TERM") RET
i.e. ESC-: puts you in the emacs-lisp interpreter in the mini
buffer, type (getenv "TERM") including the ()s, hit return. The
value of $TERM will be echoed. 

Brendan
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-27 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22 19:57 emacs and PuTTY John Oliver
2007-01-22 20:06 ` Springfield
2007-01-26 21:31   ` John Oliver
2007-01-27 15:20     ` Brendan Halpin [this message]
2007-01-22 20:30 ` Billy Patton
2007-01-26 21:25   ` John Oliver
2007-01-22 20:52 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-23  5:17 ` Torsten Mueller
2007-01-23 10:38 ` Brendan Halpin
2007-01-26 21:24   ` John Oliver
2007-01-24 15:00 ` Rob Thorpe
2007-01-24 15:09   ` Robert Thorpe

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