From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:28:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83ipppice6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314034124 24741 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2011 17:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:28:44 +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 19:28:40 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 1QvYIh-0007xd-Ok for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:28:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYIh-0006jB-6U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYId-0006iN-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYIc-000753-5e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:44145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYIb-00074v-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LQC00700B40M200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:28:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.175.65]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LQC00A6XB7IOMP7@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:28:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:82006 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:55:34 +0100 (BST) > From: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de > > The console mode has been a shock. It gets better as you get accustomed to it ;-) > There is no mouse at all. I cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. Yes, menus don't work on a TTY, except via text emulation through the minibuffer. Emacs supports a GPM build, which will then let you use the mouse on a TTY, but I don't think this works via SSH, only on a real console. > I don't want to use the ESC key as a prefix for anything, and that is normally fine under X Windows. I mean, most of the time, if I press ESC, it just makes the current panel full screen, or it aborts what I'm doing. However, in the console I have to press ESC three times. How can I make ESC react at the first press? Configure your telnet client, whatever it is, to produce ESC when you press the Alt key, and Bob's your uncle. > I also use F2 to set bookmarks, and F2 alone continues to work, but Ctrl+F2 does not. There are many other key combinations that don't work properly. It depends on the type of the TTY your telnet client emulates. What does the TERM variable say on the remote machine when you login? Find the most sophisticated TTY type that your telnet client supports, and set TERM to that TTY type. See the files in lisp/term directory for the various TTYs supported by Emacs. In general, if your telnet client supports xterm, try that first.