Re: Shift selection in remote tty

[joakim@verona.se]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   > Hello,
>   > So, I presume the shift selection problem cannot be solved on remote
>   > multiple tty sessions of emacs... 

>
> That is not true.  It works just fine with xterm.  You have a problem
> with putty that does not send different key codes for keys and
> shifted keys.  There's nothing emacs can do about that. Putty needs
> fixing...

I made a patch for this a couple of years ago. It was never accepted
into putty, but the patch is available still from Emacswiki I think.


>
>
>   > Can ctrl be bound instead of shift
>   > so that ctrl-arrow can do the selection?
>   > -dhruva
>   > 
>   > On 4/7/08, dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com> wrote:
>   > > Hello,
>   > >  Currently, I am using emacs and multi-tty a lot more than I had ever
>   > > imagined. I love the speed and the low resource usage for my remote
>   > > connections.
>   > > I never managed to get shift selection working (loadkeys does not work
>   > > asI have a remote terminal connection using Putty). I am hoping
>   > > someone on this list has a hack to make it work.
>   > > TIA
>   > > -dhruva
>   > >
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