Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: David Starks-Browning Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: ssh, ncurses and xemacs (was Re: sshd, xemacs and termcap) References: <39F15A02.E149F2D3@redhat.com> <8215-Mon23Oct2000145559+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: 23 Oct 2000 15:00:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: David Starks-Browning's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:55:59 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii David Starks-Browning writes: > On 23 Oct 00, Henry S. Thompson writes: > > _But_, when running xemacs, backspace or delete hard suspends xemacs > > and trash its terminal state. Problem appears to be that in going to > > raw mode, susp (and lots of other things) are set to ^?. This isn't a > > problem from a local terminal, because the relevant keys don't > > generate that code, but when coming in via ssh they do. > > > > This feels like a bug in ncurses, with some things getting set to -1 > > (== \177 when masked) which shouldn't, but a fairly detailed look at > > the ncurses sources doesn't reveal anything. > > I don't know much about ncurses, termcap, terminfo and all that stuff, > but I found that I could compile xemacs-21.1.12 OOTB *without* any > additional ncurses library. I don't notice any loss of functionality > with 'xemacs -nw'. (But I hardly ever use it, and possibly not the > same way you do.) Might be worth a try? Thanks, I'll try, but note my problem _only_ arises when using 'xemacs -nw' via ssh from a remote site. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com