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From: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
To: MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Accessing remote Emacs from a Mac terminal emulator
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:47:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJ-YiTZvLAHeYERKpwgiQbFj4Jbf=z4gF=TB6SvU3uu1H6jgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532B60C5.4010501@arlsoft.com>

I use a mac. To enable the Alt key as meta, do the following:

In the terminal (your Terminal.app) go:
Preferences --> Keyboard, and then check the box for "Use option as meta
key".

Jai


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:42 PM, MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> wrote:

> I need to log into a shell on a remote server and then invoke Emacs from
> the command line.  Up until recently my local machine was a Windows laptop.
>  I was running 'putty' locally.  Putty's front end is a terminal emulator,
>  and it speaks ssh out its back end.
>
> I recently switched to a Mac, so to accomplish the same task I've been
> running the Mac terminal emulator (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
> and at the local command line I run:
>
>    ssh -p port username@domainname
>
> After I log into the remote machine's shell, I start up Emacs, just as
> I've been doing for ages.  Almost everything works just as it used to, BUT
> when I need to type a keystroke with the Meta modifier (i.e. use the ALT
> modifier key) the modifier isn't recognized.
>
> Although I can get the same effect by using the ESC key, that's often a
> real pain.  For example, if I want to move forward a word at a time, I'll
> usually type ALT+f, and then release the "f" key and type it again several
> times without ever releasing the ALT key.  To do the same thing with the
> ESC key, I've got to press ESC, release ESC, press F, release F, repeat
> until the cursor's where I want it.
>
> Clearly putty sends something in the SSH protocol that lets the remote
> Emacs know when the ALT key is pressed.  I don't know if it's the Mac
> terminal emulator or the Mac implementation of SSH that's failing to pass
> that information along.
>
> Does anyone here have any idea what I need to do to allow the information
> about the state of the ALT modifier key to be passed to the server where
> Emacs is running?
>
>    Mark R.
>
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 21:42 Accessing remote Emacs from a Mac terminal emulator MBR
2014-03-20 21:47 ` Jai Dayal [this message]
2014-03-20 21:49   ` Jai Dayal
2014-03-20 22:24     ` MBR

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