From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: suvayu ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:56:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314035832 4095 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2011 17:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 19:57:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYkD-0002Ft-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:57:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYkD-0006fV-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYk8-0006eb-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYk7-0004rN-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:47870) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYk7-0004oQ-CG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: by bkbzt4 with SMTP id zt4so4543460bkb.0 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NyV+S9J3DAhgj8wIYx1OeHxHrsoeHUU9sBMkWPGWZOI=; b=pBhVjbEmDYx5JH+kaQIrGyyZoxeH8xESRoOG6YS/ZlfTg/wMKL/QtS+JVcGskumNxo rZ9NeVCqHQFJVBFZCw2j8lBLDUGFS7bJDJGETOevUWzsGaBJVTXXxd2C1yuZ7fH6e/mZ B5SQO0ukFlAANuuei1cAPWFwbqBVy/DJ6r6y8= Original-Received: by 10.204.135.25 with SMTP id l25mr1005273bkt.200.1314035818160; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.204.13.67 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:56:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: zu0swKWFWUeBdzH4K7gs13iLEoM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82009 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:55 AM, wrote: > > The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot > navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. > But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well. > You can try `xterm-mouse-mode' > I don't want to use the ESC key as a prefix for anything, and that is > normally fine under X Windows. I mean, most of the time, if I press > ESC, it just makes the current panel full screen, or it aborts what > I'm doing. However, in the console I have to press ESC three times. > How can I make ESC react at the first press? > I believe you can use C-g to quit even on the console. If none of these suit you, there is always tramp. It will let you edit the remote files form your local GUI instance of emacs. URLs like the one below should work: /ssh::remoteuser@remotehost:/path/to/file To edit files as root, you can use tramp twice, once to login to the remote machine as a regular user then login as root from the remote machine. Check out the tramp info manual for details. > > Many thanks in advance, > =A0R. Diez GL --=20 Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.