From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and PuTTY Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:52:32 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <874pqin5rj.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169502291 9188 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 21:44:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 22:44:42 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 1H96uW-0002C4-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H96uW-0008H5-1Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:41:04 -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: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net bifNg+1yn/5EWSMjH4hpsAtnMt8Wp5/J4KTENSE9rN/nu8691Z Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CDTX3yzsmJ8E6xqrmZVhdkiAXHY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144934 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40540 Archived-At: John Oliver writes: > We have several users who SSH to a server with PuTTY and run emacs > there. Unfortunately, there seems to be some issue with PuTTYs terminal > emulation and emacs (emacs-21.3-4.10 on RHEL 4) which makes the cursor > jump around and do some weird things like that. They tell me that > hitting Control-L "fixes" it for a minute or two, but it'll start > happening again. I've gotten around this for some people by installing > CygWin and exporting the display to their machine, so they can run > Xemacs. But some people just want to stick with CLI. One user uses > Tera Term Pro, and is happy with its' terminal emulation, but TTP is an > ancient program that doesn't even support SSH... he uses it to telnet to > one ancient server, and from there SSH to the live machine :-) I know > about TTSSH, but that isn't the answer I'm looking for ;-) > > How can I get PuTTY and emacs to be happy with each other? Please note, > I'm one of those crazy vi people... I don't know anything about emacs. > If the answer is in some emacs settings, I could use more handholding > than "Just do the XYZ function!" :-) Well, a few days ago I used emacs "22.0.91.1" thru PuTTY for five minutes and didn't notice anything strange. (Used it to send an email). Perhaps you could try a more up to the edge version of emacs? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ You never feed me. Perhaps I'll sleep on your face. That will sure show you.