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From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie>
Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:38:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ps96vxi2.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnera5p4.b9t.joliver@ns.sdsitehosting.net

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.  

Have you checked LANG issues? My linux boxes have LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
and putty has to be told to use UTF-8, otherwise the terminal
becomes garbled if any non-ASCII range characters appear. 

Brendan
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Brendan Halpin,  Department of Sociology,  University of Limerick,  Ireland
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 10:38 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
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 [this message]
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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