Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:50:19AM +0200, henry atts <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > If that indeed fixes it, then somebody sets TERM to the wrong value (e.g.
>> > xterm), and emacs has no way of getting it right.
>> 
>> Yes, my $TERM is set to screen-256color for a good reason because I use
>
> Would have been good to know.
>
>> don't use) and rxvt. Setting the variable to `rxvt' would help for urxvt
>
> Setting it to the correct value of "rxvt-unicode" would help most.
>
>> but would leave me the problem that then some keys do not work within
>> other terminal-emulators.
>
> You would set it to rxvt-unicode only inside rxvt-unicode obviously. Best
> would be to not set it at all, as terminal emulators usually manage to set
> it correctly.
>
You don't say! That's great indeed. I did not know that, I've set if for
years. Now that I've unset it everything seems to work fine. 

>> Sureley I am as dumb as a brick but even a dumb guy has to make his
>> way in this world and one part of this way could be to change the
>> settings in emacs as a workaround (not a solution) and leave the
>
> Well, consider this: your workaround does more or less the same as setting
> TERM to rxvt, which is close to the correct value. So doing it properly
> would not just work with emacs, but also other full-screen programs.
>
> tmux doesn't know what TERM value you use inside it (and maybe it doesn't
> care at all).
>
>> (working) rest alone. So I still sometimes can switch to another
>> terminal when I've won at the races or at any other opporturnity.
>
> Well, if you run rxvt.el chances are it will malfunction in other
> terminals.
>
> But hey, it's your life :)

Yes, it certainly is.

Thanks,

henry

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