From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:20:16 +0000 Message-ID: <871wlgo5sf.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <878xfubzcq.fsf@main.mainworld> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169912441 31704 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2007 15:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 16:40:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HApfR-0005lH-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HApfQ-0001zG-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 93ZUokF7xXjcwgxWoemeageIK39HQzkR33DJik7pDdUzyYgM9f User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fY8aQJfGy8gAGrWNyFPK2X3esEo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145104 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:40709 Archived-At: John Oliver writes: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:06:29 +0000, Springfield wrote: >> Putty and Emacs get along ok, I expect the problem is with the terminal >> type that Emacs is using. What is the value of (getenv "TERM") from >> within Emacs? What OS is the host running? > > RHEL4 > > I don't know how to "getenv TERM" inside of emacs... I'm a vi user :-D > I just had to Google to figure out how to get out of the damn thing :-) Do ESC : (getenv "TERM") RET i.e. ESC-: puts you in the emacs-lisp interpreter in the mini buffer, type (getenv "TERM") including the ()s, hit return. The value of $TERM will be echoed. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html