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I'm using gcutil on Google Compute Engine Virtual Machines, and I'm logging on
them with the ssh command line.
Original comment by carglass...@gmail.com
on 18 Jun 2014 at 10:44
Just to confirm:
1) You are on a Windows machine
2) You are using cmd
3) You are running gcutil ssh to connect to a compute engine linux vm
4) You are trying to use emacs on that remote machine though ssh
The "dumb" terminal type in this case is expected. This is because cmd does
not support the ascii escape sequences that things like emacs use to manipulate
the terminal. If you want to use applications like this on the remote VM, you
should use a more fully featured ssh client like putty (or any other of your
choosing) that does not run directly in cmd.
If I've misunderstood the problem, please feel free to re-open the bug.
Original comment by markp...@google.com
on 18 Aug 2014 at 4:32
You completely understood.
However, it has been working perfectly for more than 1 month. Then it suddenly
happenned.
How could it have been working for so long if it couldn't?
Anyway, I'm using putty/remote VM now so I solved the problem (the issue has
been created 2 months ago..), but it doesn't answer to the question anyway !
Thanks for your time anyway.
Original comment by carglass...@gmail.com
on 18 Aug 2014 at 4:52
Having the terminal set to "dumb" in this case was not implemented from the
start (which was an oversight). We corrected that at some point, which is
probably what you are seeing. I am surprised that emacs actually worked for
you through cmd before. The problem we were seeing was that cmd was reporting
itself as a fully featured xterm and remote applications were sending back
control characters that cmd could not render. Setting the terminal type to
"dumb" is safer, but can prevent some things from working (like emacs
apparently). But yes, you should continue to use Putty for anything that
requires a fully featured terminal.
Original comment by markp...@google.com
on 18 Aug 2014 at 5:10
Ok that explains everything. Thanks.
Original comment by carglass...@gmail.com
on 19 Aug 2014 at 8:53
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
carglass...@gmail.com
on 18 Jun 2014 at 10:32