Re: Best terminal emulator for emacs?

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Sorry for the delay. Thank you very much. I also wrote to the xterm maintainer but his recomendation was:

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You might be able to make it work by prefixing with "~Meta".
The xmodmap manual page explains how to assign a key (such as Alt to "Meta").
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So I am working with your recomendation until a better option or a fully compatible terminal emulator appears.



On 4 September 2018 15:51:27 CEST, Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
>> I can use any terminal emulator (available in linux) but not emacs
>> in gui (it is a long story).
>
>Firewall at $JOB? slow network?  Sometimes even editing remote
>files with tramp is not an option.
>
>If the network is slow you may want to disable a few things in
>recent versions of emacs.  It becomes very annoying when copying text.
>
>(when (and (not (display-graphic-p))
>           (>= emacs-major-version 25))
>  (setq  select-enable-clipboard nil)
>  (setq  x-select-enable-clipboard-manager nil)
>  (setq  select-enable-primary t)
>  (setq  mouse-drag-copy-region t))
>
>> It will be very useful if anyone tells me what's the better terminal
>emulator
>
>XTerm, but it doesn't pass some some key combinations as escape
>sequences
>and you need to specify them explicitly in the translations resource.
>
>Somebody should tell the XTerm maintainer to pass more key
>combinations as escape sequences.  Either that or including a
>comprehensive sample of the 'xterm.vt100.translations' resource in the
>emacs documentation.
>
>Try this
>
>xterm -xrm \
>    'xterm.vt100.translations:     #override \n\
>    Ctrl ~Shift <Key>BackSpace: string(0x1b) string("C-BackSpace") \n \
>    Ctrl  Shift <Key>BackSpace: string(0x1b) string("C-S-BackSpace")' \
>  -e emacs -nw --execute='
> (progn (define-key function-key-map "\eC-BackSpace"   [C-backspace])
>      (define-key function-key-map "\eC-S-BackSpace" [C-S-backspace]))'
>
>C-h l (view lossage) will tell you if it works
>
> ESC C - B a c k S p a c e [backward-kill-word]
> ESC C - S - B a c k S p a c e [kill-whole-line]
>
>Paste the snippets in ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.emacs.  Remember to run
>'xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults'
>
>Be careful with the vt100.translations string.  It is like a
>programming language in itself.  The order of lines sometimes changes
>the result.  Have a look at 'man xterm' and
>/usr/share/emacs/*/lisp/term/xterm.el.gz