Re: emacs and PuTTY

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

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

> 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!" :-)

Well, a few days ago I used emacs "22.0.91.1" thru PuTTY for five
minutes and didn't notice anything strange. (Used it to send an email).

Perhaps you could try a more up to the edge version of emacs?


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