On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:59:17PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:05:01PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > Your problem with the mlterm settings, which apparently was not > > addressed in the answers you received, caught my eye, because I > > am also contemplating moving to UTF8, and because I grew to be > > addicted to my habits. I would, therefore, like to hear from you > > how these fare in mlterm. > > Most important (and I really would like to know what sets this > > option) is the interpretation of the modifier key: I like to use > > it in the shell like it is defined in emacs: I mean ALT-F, ALT-b > > to jump a word forward/backward, ALT-D, ALT-BS to erase one, > > ALT-c to capitalize, ALT-u to change to upper case till the end > > of the word and ^ALT-y in conjunction with ALT-i to recall the > > i-th argument of the preceding command. > > Thanks for listing those. Only knew about half of them :-) > > Anyway, Those are set by your shell, not by your terminal. > and indeed work in mlterm as well. At least as long as you're not in vi > mode. They work in uxterm and urxvt as well, BTW. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best > ICQ# 16849755 | | friend > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Fiest of all a big thank you to you, Tzafrir, for very consistently trying to answer all my questions, even the dumbest ones. You mention that these settings are determined by the shell. But where ? I remember that once my xterm did not interpretate ALT as I described in my previous mail. As I repeatedly forgot it and made unnerving mistakes, for a long time I abandoned xterm and used rxvt which did behave as I was used to. I don't remember how I solved the problem. I thought to understand from the xterm man page that the behaviour of ALT is determined by the value of eightBitInput: when true, its association with a char key produces some 8-bit char (that is exactly what had happened then), while if false it gives the desired behaviour. But, when, in order to check that I added the line: XTerm*eightBitInput: true to .Xresources nothing was damaged.... I'd be really thankful for any hint that might help elucidate this mistery. Cheers, Avraham ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
