Re: Shift selection in remote tty

[dhruva]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:40 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  > dhruva <address@hidden> writes:
>  >
>  >   > Hello,
>  >   > So, I presume the shift selection problem cannot be solved on remote
>  >   > multiple tty sessions of emacs...
>
>  >
>  > That is not true.  It works just fine with xterm.  You have a problem
>  > with putty that does not send different key codes for keys and
>  > shifted keys.  There's nothing emacs can do about that. Putty needs
>  > fixing...
>
>  I made a patch for this a couple of years ago. It was never accepted
>  into putty, but the patch is available still from Emacswiki I think.
>

Thank you for the information.The link to the patch is invalid. I will
try if I can figure out a way t make it work for me! Is there some
other terminal emulator that I can use on Windoze to connect to
GNU/Linux and run emacs in multi-tty.

-dhruva


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