From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de, 633652@bugs.debian.org,
debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:46:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjo6wf7p.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5yloup7.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:08:52 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>>>>>> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de> writes:
> r> Now I have to work on a remote server via SSH, and the connection is
> r> not fast enough to tunnel X Windows over it, so I have to switch to
> r> console mode with "emacs -nw".
>
> r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot
> r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly.
> r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well.
>
> Same for me, but that's life here on Debian, even on ones very own
> laptop, no SSH involved, and even if you are root,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652
The mouse should work in Emacs over SSH from an xterm. Try
(xterm-mouse-mode 1). It works for me.
There's also a mode to make the mouse work from a Linux console,
if gpm is running. I haven't used it in a long time. Look
around for t-mouse.el.
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-09 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-08-23 0:08 ` emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock jidanni
2011-09-09 3:46 ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
2011-08-23 0:35 ` jidanni
2011-08-23 0:52 ` Bug#633652: " Kenyon Ralph
2011-08-23 1:14 ` jidanni
2011-08-23 8:17 ` Bug#633652: " Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-08-23 9:31 ` Cyril Brulebois
2011-08-23 17:24 ` jidanni
2011-08-23 1:18 ` Bug#633652: " Bill MacAllister
2011-08-23 8:00 ` Toby Speight
2011-08-23 17:43 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-08-22 19:44 peter hodgson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-22 7:55 rdiezmail-emacs
2011-08-22 17:16 ` fork
2011-08-22 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-22 20:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-23 0:19 ` Daniel Schoepe
2011-08-22 17:56 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-25 14:55 ` Ehud Karni
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