Re: tab visibility cycling doesn't work over putty/ssh with viper-mode enabled

[Herbert Sitz <hsitz@nwlink.com>]

Jan Böcker <jan.boecker <at> jboecker.de> writes:
> 
>Visibility cycling with TAB works both in command and insert mode.
> I can also access the agenda using C-c a a.
> 
>Looks like putty is misconfigured. While quickly 
>scanning through
>putty's configuration menu, the only setting I 
>noticed was "Connection
>-> Data -> Terminal-type string", which is 
>set to "xterm" here.
> 
>However, I did not modify the default values, 
>so it should work out of
>the box.
> 
>You can try logging in with putty, executing 
>"sleep 5", and interrupting
>that with C-c. If that does not work, 
>the problem is definitely not
>emacs related.
> 
>HTH, Jan
> 

Jan --

Thanks, but I still haven't solved this yet 
and I don't think there's any
problem with PuTTY configuration.

However, my problems with TAB key and C-C appear 
to be quite different, and only the TAB key one 
appears to be unique to using PuTTY/ssh.

First, regarding C-c a not working to bring up 
agenda-view, this problem exists on my 
emacs instance in Ubuntu even when 
using it directly, not through ssh. 
Pressing C-c a gives error message 
'C-c a is undefined', despite the fact that
agenda-view works fine when accessing it 
through the menu system.  Frustrating,
but it has nothing to do with PuTTY.  
(And PuTTY does send C-c properly to stop
the 'sleep 5' process in a bare terminal.)

Second, the problem with TAB key in viper-mode 
does seem specific to PuTTY/ssh,
since it works fine when working directly.  
This doesn't seem possible that it's
a PuTTY problem, since so far as I can tell 
TAB works properly in all other
modes, and it works properly to cycle 
visibility as soon as I turn viper-mode off.

Thanks for the suggestions though!  
I'm wondering if you have any others?. . . 

Regards,

Herb