SSH - no separate window with emacs

[willb]

Dear all,

I'm sure I once was able to do this, but for some reason I can not fire up a separate window to use emacs in when accessing a remote server I control.

I believe this is a local issue with my machine. I recently upgraded to openSUSE 10.2. When I edit a file using emacs on the remote server it fires up emacs in that same terminal window instead of giving me a new X-window? How do I resolve this as I would like to have full mouse control?

This works fine when I use SSH in conjunction with Exceed on Windows, I generate a separate window to work within emacs? If I do any editing using emacs on my local machine (SUSE 10.2) from the terminal it fires up a new separate X-window to work with emacs, but not when accessing the remote server only if I use windows+Exceed?

Thanks
Will

[deadram]

You meen to say your using ssh and durring your session you run emacs and don't get a x-window, but when you ssh into a windows box your emacs will work?

My guess is that when ssh'ing to the other linux box, your running emacs on that remote computer. When your ssh'ing to the windows box, your running emacs locally, and some minimal editor, like ed, is being run by the windows box. It's probably a plugin or configuration option in ssh or emacs that let's you do that. But I'm just guessing out of my behind.

[willb]

I simply forget to add in the -X switch when I initially SSH into the remote server (which is running SUSE 10.1).