Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help

[Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 19.03.2005 um 23:10 schrieb Olive:
> 
>> XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^?
>> XTerm*backarrowKey: false
> 
> 
> Of course these settings work -- but only here, on localhost. I think 
> Todd has the problems when GNU Emacs runs in a shell in a remote site. 
> So re-programming the local X server won't change his problems, he has 
> to fix it in the remote shell.
> 
>> XTerm*eightBitInput: false
> 
> 
> I wouldn't do that! The European scripts are 8 bit.
> 

This setting does not prevent xterm to handle 8 bit characters properly 
(I usually wrote French, ...). It tell emacs to send "meta characters" 
as control sequence (see man xterm). To handle 8 bit properly; you must 
also add the following in your .emacs (for language that use Latin1 
encoding).

(set-terminal-coding-system 'latin-1)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-1)
(xterm-mouse-mode 1)

Olive