Don't feel bad, you're not the only one. ;] I run emacs exclusively in a terminal. I could run it in X, but choose a terminal instead.
Russell On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:20:50AM -0700, Scott Jaderholm wrote: > On 12/9/06, Pete Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Scott> 2. I use org-mode over ssh and since shift doesn't work along > > Scott> with other modifiers many of the keystrokes do not work. Has > > Scott> anyone come up with alternate keystrokes not involving shift > > Scott> that they could share? > > > >I don't understand why. I can ssh onto our servers from home, run emacs > >remotely, and it sees all the modifier keys. I can use <SHIFT> <ALT> > >and <CTRL> over my linux-linux ssh conection. Are you running standard > >UNIX/Linux machines on both sides of the connection ? Are you running > >emacs or Xemacs ? Frankly, I would think that not being able to use the > >shift key is a bit of a showstopper when entering text anyway ? > > > I am running emacs in console mode on a linux machine and connecting to it > with putty. Of course I can capitalize characters, but I cannot use > Shift-Tab or Shift-Control, and I believe Shift-Meta or Shift-arrowkeys. > > A few people in #emacs told me that this is because there is no ASCII code > to encode Shift-Tab etc. I don't know if there's some work around for this. > One would be a non-console version of emacs but I really like putty because > it is so small and I can access it anywhere without having to install X11 or > emacs locally. > > Thanks for your help, > Scott > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
