Re: emacs and PuTTY

[Brendan Halpin]

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

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:06:29 +0000, Springfield wrote:
>> Putty and Emacs get along ok, I expect the problem is with the terminal
>> type that Emacs is using. What is the value of (getenv "TERM") from
>> within Emacs? What OS is the host running?
>
> RHEL4
>
> I don't know how to "getenv TERM" inside of emacs... I'm a vi user :-D
> I just had to Google to figure out how to get out of the damn thing :-)

Do ESC : (getenv "TERM") RET
i.e. ESC-: puts you in the emacs-lisp interpreter in the mini
buffer, type (getenv "TERM") including the ()s, hit return. The
value of $TERM will be echoed. 

Brendan
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