On 12/9/06, Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk> wrote:

>     Scott> 2. I use org-mode over ssh and since shift doesn't work along
>     Scott> with other modifiers many of the keystrokes do not work. Has
>     Scott> anyone come up with alternate keystrokes not involving shift
>     Scott> that they could share?
>
> I don't understand why. I can ssh onto our servers from home, run emacs
> remotely, and it sees all the modifier keys.  I can use <SHIFT> <ALT>
> and <CTRL> over my linux-linux ssh conection.  Are you running standard
> UNIX/Linux machines on both sides of the connection ?  Are you running
> emacs or Xemacs ? Frankly, I would think that not being able to use the
> shift key is a bit of a showstopper when entering text anyway ?


I am running emacs in console mode on a linux machine and connecting to it
with putty. Of course I can capitalize characters, but I cannot use
Shift-Tab or Shift-Control, and I believe Shift-Meta or Shift-arrowkeys.

A few people in #emacs told me that this is because there is no ASCII code
to encode Shift-Tab etc. I don't know if there's some work around for this.
One would be a non-console version of emacs but I really like putty because
it is so small and I can access it anywhere without having to install X11 or
emacs locally.

Thanks for your help,
Scott