emacs via putty & keystrokes
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 16:40:34 UTC 2004
Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> 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.
Sorry. You've just fired a neuron. PuTTY just passes what's in the
Connection configuration window's "Terminal-type string" setting, and
that gets set up as $TERM.
By default it's xterm. I find that setting this to linux works better.
You may or may not find this.
(There's talk of a PuTTY-specific terminfo:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/terminfo.html
)
Hope this helps,
James.
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