From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [emacsclient] how to set for 2 machines Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:48 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d44py307.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255562650 15748 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2009 23:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:24:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 01:23:59 2009 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 1MyDCI-0000tH-Cp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyDCH-0004IG-LP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyDBp-0004El-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MyDBk-00045V-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36618 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyDBk-00045N-0W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34218) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyDBj-00013P-M6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MyDBc-0008OP-8b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:23:16 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:23:16 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:23:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2E6H2wIzQcDQOXSwT2nkDUdKiPg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68966 Archived-At: The subject line is a bit scruffy... but what I'm after: I'm using emacsclient to run gnus and read News from on instance of gnus running on an emacs --daemon=name (on a linux host). One of the machines is an Opensolaris box... when I ssh to the source machine and run emacsclient. It seems I get the host machines .emacs settings but the local machines handicaps. Opensolaris has some different keyboard mappings that render M-x unusable without some kind of modifications. I have the necessary line in the Opensolaris machine .emacs.. but when I use emacsclient from the remote host and pull the X version of emacs across to the Opensolaris machine... I have no M-x and have to use Esc-x. Something I never get used to, and causes me no end of grief.. not to mention needing to learn some more effective swear words. There are other snafus too but the question is how to get the emacs session on the local solaris machine to function the same as it does on the remote machine. One way to make emacs have an `M' (alt) key on Opensolaris is to have (setq x-alt-keysym 'meta) In .emacs, but that doesn't help when using emacsclient as described. Can anyone help me get emacs to behave as similar as possible on either machine? (when using emacslient).