From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Leonid Grinberg" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple question about question mark on linux emacs Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:00:22 -0400 Message-ID: <8642ba650605270600m5b58601aj5b7f7a3ffe6cc558@mail.gmail.com> References: <8D6FAB0B-34E8-4D13-B083-8DF68151ADA6@arclocal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148734861 1651 80.91.229.2 (27 May 2006 13:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 27 15:00:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjyPZ-0007El-7i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 15:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjyPY-0001xe-PD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjyP3-0001xF-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjyP2-0001vr-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjyP1-0001vj-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.205] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FjyU9-0000hq-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i1so248225nzh for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:00:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gYQbhYB0ZuQ6u/vCNrI1LaSEW40adB8Xoupw32YW7OrtlLAd8Qkw3yW9p6iRIBbuzpfdfdrFLE/N5mFqCftvVn+ji7wPlki2n2v2gsdwxeZ7UnPzH64dQcYWzXB7uYikQLlOnHSY+yjUxhqKXyOQPwzDKbMxxctFLcE2Nb8SmGQ= Original-Received: by 10.37.21.7 with SMTP id y7mr627453nzi; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.56.17 with HTTP; Sat, 27 May 2006 06:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: jonathan In-Reply-To: <8D6FAB0B-34E8-4D13-B083-8DF68151ADA6@arclocal.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:35258 Archived-At: That is happenning because your remote connection is sending the ? character to the shell, before Emacs. I do not remember what ? does, but here is an example: The UNIX command to delete a character is ^h (control-h). It is simplified with . If I log in to some machines with SSH and press backspace, it sends ^h to Emacs, and opens the help menu. I do not, however, know how to fix this, just yet.