Re: emacs config

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:12:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: John Williams <jbiddlew@yahoo.com>
> 
> The SuSE machine is only accessible via SSH from a Windows (ms-dog) command 
> prompt.
> The SuSE command line works find across SSH.  I invoked emacs across SSH, 
> went through the tutorial, and a few problems arose:  The backspace key maps 
> to C-h.  The delete key maps to ~.  The function keys map to letters or 
> numbers and ~.  This is as far as I got - I don't know what else may or may 
> not work.  I'm under the gun to produce so thanks again for your advice.  I 
> remember emacs being very cool, and am excited at the prospect of getting it 
> working.

This is something you should fix in the SSH client on the Windows side
(which client is that, btw?).  It should be told to map Backspace to
DEL, Delete to C-d, and function keys to whatever the termcap/terminfo
entry on the Unix side expects.