From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73290 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: $ collision Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:53:30 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87pqv779gi.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <87ocarvxt8.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287485673 11936 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2010 10:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:54:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21662@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 19 12:54:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P89pu-0001BC-Ot for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:54:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P89pX-00054T-PO; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P89pV-00054B-PR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P89pU-0000SV-JG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P89pT-0008BR-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1524023fxm.17 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:53:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:organization :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=LHrCTDgVO5WLRk9d/1N8u2j8PCR3t76+R574mJ1uMmM=; b=udo3DkifyOahF2PEAcdDt/VCjD9G2rKZctxHo+6ge+5TFYs8VriKb6WFfsaLd1RpkO /GfD6O7Yk1YbODDuG1xI9iPwtZSC25Jvo1hWAZf+DD2IT5h2/VDok4fbKEA6hDvUQ+Bx Ehq4HbHz7C1jxpFztRc7OkAoy4GhQJpSuXg1I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=ZhhWO5VxodpTMlNhWXC/UWarU/5DvBnbAHCvQzkDn8gzZ6QQT5Cw6Xr9/gIUAveeAK zOeTw7O/oXMGf48jDMSkaHkXRlBIXjjmC1707GpN+5my/1LOcw6BdayZ1zxgqEBeiQ5+ 9TWIr8vmQ2nd5wuIXH6u5ulUw35u7bicWGMTA= Original-Received: by 10.103.241.18 with SMTP id t18mr2901228mur.36.1287485612806; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y19sm2920434fau.17.2010.10.19.03.53.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:53:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:37:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73290 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Steinar Bang : > >>>>>> Russ Allbery : >>> I don't believe it's keyboard-dependent, but I could be wrong. I've never >>> had meta survive ssh -> xterm -> emacs, which forces two keystrokes (ESC >>> d) instead of one shifted keystroke. > >> That works for me. I work with "emacs -nw" on some slow SSH >> connections, and I do the ssh from an xterm. And I can use M-commands >> on that emacs, without having to resort to ESC. > >> Works from KDE konsole and from gnome-terminal, as well as from xterm (I >> just verified). > > The xterm I tried with was xterm-192-8.el4 on RHEL4, which... isn't > exactly the newest and shiniest... > > I did the ssh command with the -Y flag, but that shouldn't affect this. > I am assuming here that Russ means Esc Esc d? Since M-d or Esc d is two keys as is a shifted $. I also just double checked my setup , a tmux with a urxvt running bash opened, sshd into a remote debian ran emacs -nw and M-d works in that set up too. The wonders of different systems and something as convoluted as termcap I guess.