Nolan Darilek wrote:
>
> I'm trying to compile a large program on my 64 meg box. Since I don't
> have enough money for RAM (Yes, I've shopped around :) I'm trying to
> kill as many running jobs as I possibly can.
>
> So, I nuked my web server, Zope, icecast, and lots of other daemons. I
> then wanted to try stopping X and running from the console. I'm using
> Emacs for editting and compilation, though, and when I try running it
> from the console, I can't seem to get most of my key combinations to
> work. I've bound C-/ to search-forward, and it runs great in an XTerm,
> but C-/ is apparently recognized as DEL by Emacs when it runs under
> the console.
>
> I wasn't sure if any other programs which used Meta and other key
> combinations worked, so I fired up minicom. Sure enough, it worked
> nicely. My terminal type is set to linux, but I tried using vt100 and
> met with the same results.
>
> Can anyone recommend something? I'd very much like to get a
> fully-functioning Emacs which works just as well on the console as it
> does under X.
If emacs runs fine in an xterm but not from the console, this is almost
undoubtedly not an emacs problem. (Well it doesn't seem like one.) When
you say from an xterm, do you mean you use the -nw flag so that emacs
runs in text mode without popping up its own X window? Or are you
running emacs from, but not in, an xterm? Just to cover all the cases,
were you using xemacs or just emacs initially in X? (xemacs is an emacs
fork.) Also, emacs takes almost 3 1/2 megs of ram running in console
mode on my 64 meg machine. I'm not doing anything fancy either. So you
may want to use something more lightweight if you have memory issues.
(Or add swap space!) I was flipping through someone else's "Writing
EMACS Extensions Book" and I seem to recall C-/ being mapped to DEL by
default.
Hopefully this will help you find the answer.
- paul
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