Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Without ssh: I will try this in a couple of minutes.

Without Linux & ssh, the ALT key *didn't* work with xterm, and not
for urxvt (regardless, it seemed, of .Xresources & xrdb), and
*not* for a GUI Emacs, but it *did* work for 'emacs -nw' in the
*default Solaris terminal*, in which the ALT key worked as Meta as
well (that is, in the terminal itself, for cursor movements,
etc.).

I don't know what terminal that is, because I didn't invoke it
from the shell, but by clicking on a black squared icon (a
terminal), which had the caption "Terminal". I didn't spend a
fraction of the time with Solaris that I did with Debian, so I
think this is a far as I can help you. I'm (not) on SunOS 5.10, if
that helps.

It worked in the following cases:
- ssh from a Linux VT (tty), run Emacs
- 'ssh -Y' from Linux X & urxvt, then use 'emacs -nw' or the GUI
  Emacs (just 'emacs'), both works (the GUI Emacs also works from
  xterm with this method, as it doesn't matter from where it is
  invoked)
- without ssh, with the default terminal *and* 'emacs -nw'

I take it you don't want to ssh from Linux, so perhaps you should
drop xterm, and use the default terminal? It seems to be good
enough.

-- 
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573