From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Oliver Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: 26 Jan 2007 21:31:43 GMT Organization: Nationwide Internet Message-ID: References: <878xfubzcq.fsf@main.mainworld> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169847782 29390 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 21:43:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:43:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 22:42:54 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 1HAYqU-0000N5-G2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:42:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAYqU-0001c5-5c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:42:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newspump.sol.net!post2.nntp.sol.net!216.165.192.91.MISMATCH!posts.news.nationwide.net!nnrp1.nationwide.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2007 21:31:43 GMT Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 5140395a.news.nationwide.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=<85W; 8j`VbjlTZdf6:dDNg:U7?Od7_0ClY; fCe\oY` 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:40691 Archived-At: 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 :-) I looked in the .emacs for the user in question, and there's no TERM set, so I assume he's using whatever the default is. -- * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ *