From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift selection in remote tty Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:10:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200804072345.m37NjqIJ016152@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207649684 20202 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 10:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 12:15:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjArA-0008F3-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:15:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JjAqW-0007DE-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjAqH-00076W-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjAqC-00072B-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JjAqC-00071t-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64] helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JjAqB-00042A-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m38AE0DK023455; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:14:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200804072345.m37NjqIJ016152@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:45:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94687 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > dhruva 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 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 > > > > > > -- > > > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > > > > > Contents reflect my personal views only! > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > > > Contents reflect my personal views only! > -- Joakim Verona