simple question about question mark on linux emacs

simple question about question mark on linux emacs

[jonathan]

I ssh into a fedora 3 box with my OS X box. When I start emacs and  
type a "?", it puts it into the bottom and waits for a command.  I  
just want to it to put a question mark. Is this a problem with what  
my powerbook is sending or with the remote machine? It would seem to  
be former because emacs works fine on my powerbook. How do I fix this?

thanks,

jonathan

Re: simple question about question mark on linux emacs

[Leonid Grinberg]

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 <BACKSPACE>. 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.

Re: simple question about question mark on linux emacs

[Michaël Cadilhac]

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jonathan <news_php@arclocal.com> writes:

> I ssh into a fedora 3 box with my OS X box. When I start emacs and
> type a "?", it puts it into the bottom and waits for a command.
> I  just want to it to put a question mark. Is this a problem with what
> my powerbook is sending or with the remote machine? It would seem to
> be former because emacs works fine on my powerbook. How do I fix this?

Client  part  of  OpenSSH  (at  least) has  a  feature  called  escape
characters. The default one is `~',  but maybe yours is set to `?'. It
allows the  user to  make simple commands  such as  backgrounding ssh,
list connections, ...

In OpenSSH,  this is tweaked  through the ~/.ssh/config file  with the
variable EscapeChar.

It may be related.

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