ssh, ncurses and xemacs (was Re: sshd, xemacs and termcap)

[David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>]

On  23 Oct 00, Henry S. Thompson writes:
> _But_, when running xemacs, backspace or delete hard suspends xemacs
> and trash its terminal state.  Problem appears to be that in going to
> raw mode, susp (and lots of other things) are set to ^?.  This isn't a 
> problem from a local terminal, because the relevant keys don't
> generate that code, but when coming in via ssh they do.
> 
> This feels like a bug in ncurses, with some things getting set to -1
> (== \177 when masked) which shouldn't, but a fairly detailed look at
> the ncurses sources doesn't reveal anything.

I don't know much about ncurses, termcap, terminfo and all that stuff,
but I found that I could compile xemacs-21.1.12 OOTB *without* any
additional ncurses library.  I don't notice any loss of functionality
with 'xemacs -nw'.  (But I hardly ever use it, and possibly not the
same way you do.)  Might be worth a try?

Cheers,
David 


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