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Re: Alt Putty
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Rusi |
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Re: Alt Putty |
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Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:13:11 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 1:17:09 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rusi wrote:
> > By which I mean that there must be some putty setting to make Alt behave
> > like
> > well like Alt :-).
> > google was not much helpful
>
> Works for me. Using putty.exe and emacs in the standard text console
> mode and Alt works like Meta by default. It does this by prefixing
> the key with ESC. That is Alt-x on the putty.exe keyboard produces
> "ESC x" sent over the serial data stream. This can be easily seen by
> typing into 'od -tx1 -c' (finish with C-d eof) and looking at the
> data. Command line applications such as bash and emacs interpret "ESC
> x" as M-x and behave appropriately.
>
> I looked over my putty.exe configuration dialog screens but didn't see
> an explicit option to enable or disable this. I know I have not done
> anything specific in this regard. It is a feature I use almost every
> time I have ever used putty.exe and I have never needed to configure
> it explicitly. It has always worked by default.
>
> Therefore I conclude that it must be something in your environment
> that is *preventing* this from working. I'd say it works for other
> people. You will need to debug your environment and see why it
> doesn't work for you.
>
> Bob
Looking at things like:
http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/putty-configuration/
I gather I need to set up a suitable terminfo (on server):
# apt-get install ncurses-term
And then set the $TERM to putty (not the default xterm) on the putty side
[Not on office-machines now so just talk ATM]
Right now tried opening an xterm and typing Alt-x
I get this (captured with emacs -nw)
position: 1 of 1 (0%), column: 0
character: ø (displayed as ø) (codepoint 248, #o370, #xf8)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0xF8
script: latin
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), h:Korean, j:Japanese,
l:Latin
to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
buffer code: #xC3 #xB8
file code: #xC3 #xB8 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: terminal code #xC3 #xB8
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
old-name: LATIN SMALL LETTER O SLASH
general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
decomposition: (248) ('ø')
There is an overlay here:
From 1 to 1
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