From owner-ntemacs-users@june Thu Feb 20 18:39:27 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] [nil "Thu" "20" "February" "1997" "21:07:39" "-0500" "Nathaniel Mishkin" "mishkin@atria.com" "<2.2.32.19970221020739.008f86e4@gw.atria.com>" "16" "PC/Anywhere and GNU Emacs" "^From:" nil nil "2" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id SAA19586 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:39:27 -0800 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id SAA28423 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:39:26 -0800 Received: from gw.atria.com (gw.atria.com [192.88.237.2]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id SAA17256 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:08:42 -0800 Received: from marlowe by gw.atria.com id Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:08:38 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970221020739.008f86e4@gw.atria.com> X-Sender: mishkin@gw.atria.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Nathaniel Mishkin To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: PC/Anywhere and GNU Emacs Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:39 -0500 I just picked up an evaluation copy of Symantec's PC/Anywhere product. (For those of you who don't know, PC/Anywhere is a product that lets your "remotely control" a remote NT or Win95 system from an NT or Win95 system. I.e., the client gets a window that presents an image of the contents of the remote system's display and things you type into that window get sent to the remote system.) It seems to work OK (if a bit slowly) with several apps I've tried to use, but GNU Emacs exhibits some unusual behavior: control keys don't seem to be getting seen by Emacs. I _can_ use the mouse to move the (block) cursor around the Emacs buffer. And if I type control characters to other apps (e.g., Dev Studio) and to console windows (where they echo as ^X, ^F, etc.) they get seen. Anyone have any ideas on why Emacs should behave differently? -- Nat Mishkin Pure Atria From mishkin@atria.com Sun Feb 23 09:25:06 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] [nil "Sun" "23" "February" "1997" "12:24:00" "-0500" "Nathaniel Mishkin" "mishkin@atria.com" "<2.2.32.19970223172400.0092f350@gw.atria.com>" "19" "Re: PC/Anywhere and GNU Emacs" "^From:" nil nil "2" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from gw.atria.com (gw.atria.com [192.88.237.2]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id JAA12408 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 09:25:05 -0800 Received: from marlowe by gw.atria.com id Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:25:02 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970223172400.0092f350@gw.atria.com> X-Sender: mishkin@gw.atria.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Nathaniel Mishkin To: voelker@cs.washington.edu (Geoff Voelker) Subject: Re: PC/Anywhere and GNU Emacs Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:24:00 -0500 At 12:52 PM 2/22/97 -0800, Geoff Voelker wrote: >> Anyone have any ideas on why Emacs should behave differently? > >Emacs checks whichever bit is supposed to be set for key presses when >the control key is also pressed to determine whether the control >modifier should be set. I don't know why this wouldn't be set in this >system, but apparently not. Thanks for following up, but it turns out that the problem went away when I started a new Emacs process (as opposed to the one that was in existence prior to my connecting to the system). Of course, I have no idea why that should matter, but given that it seems like a small miracle that PC/Anywhere works at all I wasn't going to bother myself (or the list) with more noise on the topic. If it starts happening again (and in a way I can't work around), I''ll try your suggestion and report back. -- Nat