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emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock
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rdiezmail-emacs |
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emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:55:34 +0100 (BST) |
Hi all:
I'm a "normal" GUI computer user, I've used things like Delphi, Eclipse, gedit,
Notepad++ and Visual Studio all my life. I've also been using emacs for some
time under Ubuntu and under Windows.
It took me a while to set it up with "standard" behaviour, like shift+arrows
for text selection and so on, I found the cua mode to be helpful. Every now and
then, I even click on the menus with the mouse. However, I've written some
simple, copy-paste lisp too,
so I'm not just a standard mouse user. In fact, my .emacs file has grown much
more than I ever thought it would. 8-)
Now I have to work on a remote server via SSH, and the connection is not fast
enough to tunnel X Windows over it, so I have to switch to console mode with
"emacs -nw".
The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot navigate
the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. But, worst of all,
some key combinations do not work well.
I don't want to use the ESC key as a prefix for anything, and that is normally
fine under X Windows. I mean, most of the time, if I press ESC, it just makes
the current panel full screen, or it aborts what I'm doing. However, in the
console I have to press ESC three times. How can I make ESC react at the first
press?
I also use F2 to set bookmarks, and F2 alone continues to work, but Ctrl+F2
does not. There are many other key combinations that don't work properly.
The remote server is Ubuntu 11.04, and I'm root, I can configure anything I
want, including terminal types. But I just don't know enough. I've googled
about it, but all instructions I found are
so dreadfully complicated. I keep thinking, surely this is a normal scenario:
SSH to Ubuntu, run emacs on that console. Is there a web site with simple
instructions on how to fix those
keyboard issues? Or can anybody give me easy-to-follow tips here?
Please copy me on the answers, as I'm not subscribed to this list.
Many thanks in advance,
R. Diez
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