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Re: Typing and pasting "special" characters directly in emacs in xterm?
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Din |
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Re: Typing and pasting "special" characters directly in emacs in xterm? |
Date: |
17 Oct 2006 20:45:06 -0700 |
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G2/1.0 |
Hi Adam,
I was run into the same problem. I was able to going
through it by adding
xtrem*eightBitInput:false
xterm*metaSendsEscape:true
to .Xdefaults file. After adding these changes you may need to run
$ xrdb .Xdefaults
thanks,
Dinesh
Adam Funk wrote:
> When I'm running emacs as an X application (i.e. in it's own GUI
> window) I have no problem typing £ and composed non-US characters (I
> have a UK keyboard and the compose:rwin X option) and using X to copy
> text including funny quotation marks (for example) and paste it into
> emacs.
>
> But when I run emacs -nw in xterm or over ssh in an xterm, it tends to
> blow up when I do these things: the desired characters don't appear,
> the point moves around and sometimes bits of text get deleted.
>
> (I've tried googling for this but I apparently don't know the right
> words to describe this problem.)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam