emacs via putty & keystrokes

[Bill Gradwohl]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>Play with the Terminal -> Keyboard window in Putty configuration.
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>$ echo $TERM
>does return linux, doesn't it?
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>Which emacs are you using: GNU or Xemacs?
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>Are you using X tunnelling, or are you running emacs in text mode?
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>This shouldn't afect anything, but Window -> Translation: Received
>data... is set to UTF-8, isn't it?
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>Which font are you using? I find Courier New good.
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"It aint what you don't know that'll hurt ya, it's what you "know" that 
aint so." -- Will Rogers

I thought I had the proper settings, but actually I didn't.

I set
    UTF-8 in translation
     Control-H for backspace
     Linux for function keys and keypad
     Courier, 10-point for font
in the main Putty panel and mistakenly assumed those were universal 
settings. Once I set them for a particular profile (now that I know 
where I made the mistake), things got better, but still not perfect. 
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction James.

I'm using GNU emacs on FC2 from a W2K box via Putty without an X tunnel.

An echo $TERM always returns xterm regardless of the Putty settings. 
That's probably what's broken.

Backspace now works. The end key still doesn't work. I forgot to mention 
that hitting the home key brings up a search box too. I tried both the 
"standard" and "rxvt" settings in Putty for the Home and End keys but 
neither one works as expected.

I think I'll get a later Putty client and see what happens.

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