From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:55:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply-To: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314031493 6415 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2011 16:44:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:44:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 18:44:45 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 1QvXcD-0003zX-6c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvXcC-0000o0-H5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvPMA-0005fR-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvPM8-0004MD-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.183.236]:28192) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvPM8-0004M3-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.146.183.215] by nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Aug 2011 07:55:34 -0000 Original-Received: from [217.146.183.161] by tm8.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Aug 2011 07:55:34 -0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Aug 2011 07:55:34 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 516292.41058.bm@omp1002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Original-Received: (qmail 93526 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Aug 2011 07:55:34 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.de; s=s1024; t=1313999734; bh=5daKhPIWFJwcMIBe6XnpCO75XYLs7sK5gd+pIvImbkY=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=leRHM9YooGbXxFCL3kAtFdcbrGsIccbrmcIvSCcSn094MKu05bYV6UJUm1dgS9w2waeIcsr21z/q60OC3SwvXTb0uPUSlnHImVmjytd9ca8lTUuvpiM5CpPpltevPPisoTse4Na/Djp0ZfcM1VJiG3v5eNZg5n0YdtFOIEYVEk8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RyazOc5vyIk9yyiosAComC01EZbWq/dESAgk98UVNUMGO9dX2EBHDG2Aphzwngb19jYgYhehOxHd2CshwyEap37oS4/up3IHafjyZ6i+aMI8afPg0qfWACdtMCCwTwZNjzw5WZJT/exaARvwG0CremxEgcJpKSa8wfoSifl2opM=; X-YMail-OSG: f8tP2QoVM1lEochuxRFxK21VRKaA7T61ZiztkrdjxrNB2mc qtXSQx7yrp45Oojpb9uGYQj_A1ur7z_rkOkGH66nutdKTgeP26.zEd0FHIiz mrF8Dg6nfWbB7dxmXH6.MavYVxKgCN2.FTVJC5a__0yelkp6csAXLQ2jiKFA USdVlerJ.Y1jzsZkpVndm30gpWYSefEtUPeBl3HOUXi6UPWZ5jW325OhKdzb 1oC4Bz3IuPywybHmVKMoqwyIBhTvmAGipXii5NYJ.jgiLpV0vh.42wYR9Jl_ jwbd8KvkY0YPE9J6xD28wZSDOPNcFI8PA5EQj5E6eGgxImMxpBfEv6oLF08B tE8TO_3VeJC2hpMJ9Qbn4CfITtQIYoJIKXgoRgSkq8uUwVXmIeu570XyK87F O8V4rpAngnH9ibpUDjQ-- Original-Received: from [188.72.244.61] by web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:55:34 BST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/14.0.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.313619 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 217.146.183.236 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:44:36 -0400 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:82003 Archived-At: Hi all:=0A=0AI'm a "normal" GUI computer user, I've used things like Delphi= , Eclipse, gedit, Notepad++ and Visual Studio all my life. I've also been u= sing emacs for some time under Ubuntu and under Windows.=0AIt took me a whi= le to set it up with "standard" behaviour, like shift+arrows for text selec= tion and so on, I found the cua mode to be helpful. Every now and then, I e= ven click on the menus with the mouse. However, I've written some simple, c= opy-paste lisp too,=0Aso I'm not just a standard mouse user. In fact, my .e= macs file has grown much more than I ever thought it would. 8-)=0A=0A=0ANo= w I have to work on a remote server via SSH, and the connection is not fast= enough to tunnel X Windows over it, so I have to switch to console mode wi= th "emacs -nw".=0A=0AThe console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse a= t all. I cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unf= riendly. But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well.=0A=0AI = don't want to use the ESC key as a prefix for anything, and that is normall= y fine under X Windows. I mean, most of the time, if I press ESC, it just m= akes the current panel full screen, or it aborts what I'm doing. However, i= n the console I have to press ESC three times. How can I make ESC react at = the first press?=0A=0AI also use F2 to set bookmarks, and F2 alone continue= s to work, but Ctrl+F2 does not. There are many other key combinations that= don't work properly.=0A=0AThe remote server is Ubuntu 11.04, and I'm root,= I can configure anything I want, including terminal types. But I just don'= t know enough. I've googled about it, but all instructions I found are=0Aso= dreadfully complicated. I keep thinking, surely this is a normal scenario:= SSH to Ubuntu, run emacs on that console. Is there a web site with simple = instructions on how to fix those=0Akeyboard issues? Or can anybody give me = easy-to-follow tips here?=0A=0APlease copy me on the answers, as I'm not su= bscribed to this list.=0A=0AMany thanks in advance,=0A R. Diez=0A