From: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
To: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Accessing remote Emacs from a Mac terminal emulator
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:24:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532B6A97.1080400@arlsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJ-YiTPSZypvzoTdxnG0__2d5jOCyiOQVc_dTQnH3x1o-m5eA@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks a lot.
For anyone else who wants to try this, the complete path to the checkbox is:
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Keyboard > Use option as
meta key
Mark
On 3/20/14 5:49 PM, Jai Dayal wrote:
> Option is what you want, anyways, because Alt is obtained from
> pressing Shift+Option, so that's why it didn't show up in your Google
> searches :)
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com
> <mailto:dayalsoap@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I use a mac. To enable the Alt key as meta, do the following:
>
> In the terminal (your Terminal.app) go:
> Preferences --> Keyboard, and then check the box for "Use option
> as meta key".
>
> Jai
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:42 PM, MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com
> <mailto:mbr@arlsoft.com>> wrote:
>
> I need to log into a shell on a remote server and then invoke
> Emacs from the command line. Up until recently my local
> machine was a Windows laptop. I was running 'putty' locally.
> Putty's front end is a terminal emulator, and it speaks ssh
> out its back end.
>
> I recently switched to a Mac, so to accomplish the same task
> I've been running the Mac terminal emulator
> (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and at the local
> command line I run:
>
> ssh -p port username@domainname
>
> After I log into the remote machine's shell, I start up Emacs,
> just as I've been doing for ages. Almost everything works
> just as it used to, BUT when I need to type a keystroke with
> the Meta modifier (i.e. use the ALT modifier key) the modifier
> isn't recognized.
>
> Although I can get the same effect by using the ESC key,
> that's often a real pain. For example, if I want to move
> forward a word at a time, I'll usually type ALT+f, and then
> release the "f" key and type it again several times without
> ever releasing the ALT key. To do the same thing with the ESC
> key, I've got to press ESC, release ESC, press F, release F,
> repeat until the cursor's where I want it.
>
> Clearly putty sends something in the SSH protocol that lets
> the remote Emacs know when the ALT key is pressed. I don't
> know if it's the Mac terminal emulator or the Mac
> implementation of SSH that's failing to pass that information
> along.
>
> Does anyone here have any idea what I need to do to allow the
> information about the state of the ALT modifier key to be
> passed to the server where Emacs is running?
>
> Mark R.
>
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-20 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-20 21:42 Accessing remote Emacs from a Mac terminal emulator MBR
2014-03-20 21:47 ` Jai Dayal
2014-03-20 21:49 ` Jai Dayal
2014-03-20 22:24 ` MBR [this message]
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