On 2009-09-01 11:07 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-08-31 22:27 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>> The only other issue is for smm/rmm, which is a nuisance for bash users. >>> While it's correct, bash users may expect the meta key to send escape. >> >> I'm afraid I do not follow. With "Meta Sends Escape" enabled in xterm, >> I do not notice any problem in bash. If it is disabled, all programs >> misbehave with regard to the Meta (=Alt on my keyboard) key, at least in >> a UTF-8 locale. See bug #266336ยน. > > I seem to recall the original report was in a newsgroup. But for instance > > > http://fixunix.com/slackware/125048-slackware-current-xterm-problem-del-bs-meta-keys.html > http://bugs.gentoo.org/246091
FWIW, I could not reproduce either of these. >>> This only affects users of xterm (none of the other terminals which may >>> set $TERM to "xterm" implement either the sequence or the corresponding >>> meta mode). >>> >>> So you may want to update xterm-debian and exclude that feature. >> >> What exactly needs to be done for that? > > I was suggesting that you may/may not want smm/rmm in xterm-debian. >From the Gentoo bug it looks like we do not want it, even though I was not able to reproduce the problem. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
