From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:49 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87k6o3xhhz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <84hdj7crf0.fsf@ripco.com> <423ca3f4_4@x-privat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111281198 15712 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 01:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 02:13:18 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCp09-0003nV-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCpGw-0000KJ-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:30:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w1pE92iCNkTfcpW0msqaxeskBEY= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.26.238 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1111280269 67.71.26.238 (Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:49 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:57:49 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129456 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25011 >>> XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? >>> XTerm*backarrowKey: false >> >> Of course these settings work -- but only here, on localhost. I >> think Todd has the problems when GNU Emacs runs in a shell in a >> remote site. So re-programming the local X server won't change his >> problems, he has to fix it in the remote shell. > X resources are managed by the server, not the client. Actually, IIRC they're managed at both ends: the ~/.Xdefaults file is read directly by the client (thus from the client's file system) whereas the xrdb database (traditionally filled at login time from ~/.Xresources) is on the server. Stefan