I'm using SSH Secure Shell on a Windows XP machine, not ssh on a Linux box, and there's no -X option that I'm aware of. As far as I can tell from the man page, whatever it is that the -X option does is automatically provided by the SSH program. Also, I've used this software for accessing emacs on many machines for years with no bad experiences that I can recall ... until now.
I suspect that there's some flag or option that has to be adjusted on the BBB side, either for the shell or more likely for emacs, but I have no idea what it might be. A little more googling and I see that there may be some bug in emacs that causes this. So, another question: has anybody gotten emacs 23.4-r2 to work in the BBB running Angstrom? On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:45:55 PM UTC-5, RT Mistler wrote: > > Hi, > > Do you use the -X switch when you invoke ssh? I was searching for how to > install emacs on beaglebone black and found your note. It worked for me, I > use: > > ssh -X root@<ip-address> > > to attach to my BBB and now that I've installed gnuemacs, it works > correctly, window pops up and all; no problems with key sequences. > > I am ssh'ing over from a Ubuntu distribution. > > - RT > > On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:42:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I installed emacs on my brand new BBB, but although emacs starts up, no >> key ever makes it to into the program. >> >> The installation was as simple as >> 1) log in as root using SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 (see comments below) to >> 192.168.1.xxx (via the ethernet cable, address assigned via DHCP) >> 2) execute >> opkg update >> opkg install emacs >> 3) run emacs by typing >> emacs >> >> No key is recognized, not M-<key>, not C-<key> , not even just a letter >> <key> (and worst of all, not C-x C-c, which would cause emacs to exit). >> Same result occurs if I create a text file test.txt and then execute >> emacs test.txt >> >> And just to cut off one possibility: note that I've been using SSH >> Secure Shell with emacs for years, and I tested it just now with another >> system; it works just fine. Obviously, too, it accesses the BBB, because >> that's how I entered the commands that installed and executed emacs. And, >> of course, I've rebooted the BBB several times. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> >> P.S. SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 is a very nice TTY program, which I vastly >> prefer over PuTTY. >> Search for >> ssh secure shell 3.2.9 download free >> and you'll find various sources, including universities, that offer the >> software for free, e.g.William & Mary, Dartmouth, Northwestern, UCLA, etc. >> In other words, you won't be downloading some cracked and potentially >> dangerous piece of software. >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
