emacs on FreeBSD over SSH

[johanafm]

I'm completely fresh to the unix world and I've run in to a small problem.

I'm running emacs on a FreeBSD 6.2-release-p4 server over SSH from a Win XP machine using OpenSSH. For some reason I can't use C-space to set a mark, but other combinations with control works, such as C-s. As I understand it, C-space is the default emacs key combination for setting a mark but perhaps I'm misstaken. Would it be possible to edit .emacs somehow to enable this behaviour?

Also, how do I enable syntax highlighting by default?

Any direct input or references to relevant documentation or man pages would be appreciated as I've not been able to find what I need.

regards
johan

[dalecosp]

What SSH client? OpenSSH? on XP?

Any different using, say, PuTTY?

When in SSH, what is TERM set to? $ env | grep TERM

And, have you read this yet?