From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rob Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: 24 Jan 2007 07:00:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169650856.346332.303550@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169653256 3895 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2007 15:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 24 16:40:46 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 1H9kEr-0008Rm-P3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9kEr-0008Mx-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169650864 26827 127.0.0.1 (24 Jan 2007 15:01:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:01:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:93718 gnu.emacs.help:144984 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:40589 Archived-At: On Jan 22, 7:57 pm, John Oliver wrote: > 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. I've gotten around this for some people by installing > CygWin and exporting the display to their machine, so they can run > Xemacs. But some people just want to stick with CLI. One user uses > Tera Term Pro, and is happy with its' terminal emulation, but TTP is an > ancient program that doesn't even support SSH... he uses it to telnet to > one ancient server, and from there SSH to the live machine :-) I know > about TTSSH, but that isn't the answer I'm looking for ;-) > > How can I get PuTTY and emacs to be happy with each other? Please note, > I'm one of those crazy vi people... I don't know anything about emacs. > If the answer is in some emacs settings, I could use more handholding > than "Just do the XYZ function!" :-) That's odd, it should work. Have you checked that PuTTY is setup to recieve a sensible character set? Others on gnu.emacs.help may know what the problem is, so crossposted there.