Re: emacs and PuTTY

[Brendan Halpin]

John Oliver <joliver@john-oliver.net> writes:

> We have several users who SSH to a server with PuTTY and run emacs
> there.  Unfortunately, there seems to be some issue with PuTTYs terminal
> emulation and emacs (emacs-21.3-4.10 on RHEL 4) which makes the cursor
> jump around and do some weird things like that.  They tell me that
> hitting Control-L "fixes" it for a minute or two, but it'll start
> happening again.  

Have you checked LANG issues? My linux boxes have LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
and putty has to be told to use UTF-8, otherwise the terminal
becomes garbled if any non-ASCII range characters appear. 

Brendan
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