houk@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) (01/16/89)
I am seeing some weird behavior of GNUemacs that I am hoping someone can explain. I am running GNUemacs 18.47 on a Sun-3/60 os 3.5. I run emacs "straight" under a c-shell, I don't run emacstool. If I run emacs on the console (1152x900 B&W), it runs fine, and the "Left" and "Right" keys work nicely as "meta" keys. If I rlogin from my 3/60 to either of our Sequent systems (one "Balance" and one "Symmetry"), emacs runs happily, and the "Left" and "Right" keys work nicely as "meta" keys. If I rlogin to either our other Sun-3/60 or Sun-3/75, and run emacs then at first the "Left" and "Right" keys work as "meta" keys, but after one or two vists to shell level (via ^Z bound to "suspend-emacs", although even m-X suspend-emacs shows the same undesirable behavior) the "meta-ness" disappears - the "Left" and "Right" keys are totally ignored. At this point, "^S/^Q" also stop working (i.e., emacs no longer sees them, I can't search, save, etc. - ^S is being processed as XOFF, ^Q as XON - rather annoying!). This is very reproducible, although inconsistent - it typically takes two cycles to reproduce, sometimes four or five, sometimes the first time. The behaviour is invariant wrt from which of the suns I start, and to which system I rlogin (and they are all running os'es built from the same set of object files). I want my "meta" keys . . . Can anyone explain this behaviour? Am I doing something wrong/silly? Offer any suggestions as to what I should be looking for? (for example, "stty everything" shows no changes.) Thankx for any help... -RDH
houk@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) (03/07/89)
Some time back I posted a query regarding problems rlogin'ing 'tween Suns and running GNUemacs and losing use of "meta" (Right & Left) and ^S/^Q keys. The solution is to use "rlogin -8" (which the standard MAKEHOSTS script does not setup). My [inexcusably tardy] thanks to all who responded! -RDH