From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:38:29 +0000 Message-ID: <87ps96vxi2.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169548858 14431 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2007 10:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 11:40:56 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 1H9J5D-0007WQ-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9J5D-0006bl-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:40:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net vAg9JIW/i5cg0aSwrqUHbAwgVYMlzjE4go4PsfwkpNzgDUNckM User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wLaM9KqPZcRLxZPHYsUO0JpuYn4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144948 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:40552 Archived-At: John Oliver 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 -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html