Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-09-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: > r> Now I have to work on a remote server via SSH, and the connection is > r> not fast enough to tunnel X Windows over it, so I have to switch to > r> console mode with "emacs -nw". > > r> The console mode has been a shock. There

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread jidanni
I am now officially pleased with sux, enabling me to use X programs as root despite http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652 . Thanks everybody. Have a song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLtzQXTHiqk&list=PL38C412C876528CCB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@li

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES (23/08/2011): > And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost > trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:14 AM, wrote: >> "KR" == Kenyon Ralph writes: > KR> I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as > KR> root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on > KR> the local machine. On remote machines I do the same but in an s

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Toby Speight
> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I r> cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and r> unfriendly. But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work r> well. 0> In article <87ty99otg1@jidanni.org>, 0>

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 08:35:58 AM +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r> But, worst of all, some key combinatio

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "KR" == Kenyon Ralph writes: KR> I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR> root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR> the local machine. On remote machines I do the same but in an ssh KR> session in xterm (I don't use mouse or men

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2011-08-23T08:35:58+0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: > r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot > r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. > r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not w

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well. But that's the way it must be here on Debian, if you a

Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> Hi all: r> I'm a "normal" GUI computer user, I've used things like Delphi, r> Eclipse, gedit, Notepad++ and Visual Studio all my life. I've also r> been using emacs for some time under Ubuntu and under Windows. It r> took me a while to set it up with "stan