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Here's my scenario: I connect to my debian server from an Ubuntu terminal. I invoke emacs text editor to edit files on my server. Unfortunately it seems that the Ctrl Xkey is not recognized by emacs run in this manner. I tried all available terminals including lxterminal, qterminal, xfceterminal while running ssh. It happens in all of them. I even tried the virtual console. It happens there too. It does not happen when connected from Windows via putty.

On the client, I tried nano in terminal mode and emacs -nw, and Ctrl-X does work there. So I assume it's an emacs problem tied to ssh from Ubuntu. How do I fix this?

The client is running Ubuntu 16.10 on gnome. The host is Debian 8 x64 server.

Joel G Mathew
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  • have a look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28567522/use-ctrl-x-commands-while-in-terminal-in-emacs – piyushj May 16 '16 at 09:35
  • No, @piyushjaiswal. That answer is not helpful. – Joel G Mathew May 16 '16 at 09:40
  • You haven't confirmed whether Ctrl-X works outside of Emacs in the first scenario. (You mentioned testing in Nano, but only in the same situation in which it also worked in Emacs.) – phils May 17 '16 at 02:30
  • @phils It was confined to emacs. Unfortunately it started working after a couple of updates and a reboot. So I'm left clueless as to what it was. – Joel G Mathew May 17 '16 at 16:09

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