Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote:
>> My initial reaction is that I want to see a more compelling justification >> for standardizing anything here. > I don't think it's any more or less confusing than delete-versus- > backspace behavior. I do, for the simple reason that everyone uses the delete key, but a lot of people (including a lot of Emacs users) never use the Alt key at all. > 1. Applications should all behave the same way wrt handling of the > Meta key in terminals. Advertising the smm capability makes that > basically impossible. Basically, I'm dubious the gain from this is worth the effort. Presumably Thomas has some reason for making xterm's default what it is currently, if only "it's always been that way." My guess is that most people who are explicitly using xterm (which usually requires some effort these days, since the desktop environments all default to something else) are pretty big on "it's always been that way" behavior. :) (That's what I meant by the comparison with nvi users.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nxf9x7h....@windlord.stanford.edu
