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I have emacs-nox installed on a CentOS 6.5 server. I had been using PuTTY from Windows to remote into this server. However, I discovered that in emacs, I cannot hit Ctrl+A (somewhat like other combinations found here) because it is gobbled by PuTTY and doesn't make it to emacs.

My question is, is there a way to get PuTTY to work better? If not, what ssh client for Windows would allow me to remotely use emacs in CLI mode?

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In Windows I have found Cygwin to work great. Just do not download everything when you install packages as that will take up way too much memory.

When using the installer run a search for "openssh" and you should be good to go.

Also, if you go this route, 'ncurses' is also a must have.

I tested emacs using cygwin's ssh and ctrl+a worked fine.

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  • What happens without ncurses?
    – Kev
    May 7, 2015 at 2:33
  • When using the cygwin terminal in windows, ncurses emulates a lot of common unix-like commands like "clear" for instance. It is not necessary to have, and does not affect anything while you are using ssh to connect to another machine. stackoverflow.com/questions/11249070/… May 7, 2015 at 13:42

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