On 2026-06-25 18:42:33 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > more to the point: in 2000 (the quoted thread), the meta() call from mutt > had no effect on xterm because: > > a) there were no control sequences to activate it until 6 years later, > > b) ncurses was already using the terminal in 8-bit mode anyway
The meta() call could have been added for another terminal. "git show 1a5381e07e97fe482c2b3a7c75f99938f0b105d4:ChangeLog" gives the initial version of the ChangeLog file in Git, starting with changes since 0.88 (while the current ChangeLog file no longer contains such information), but meta() isn't mentioned, only $meta_key: - [[email protected]] adds the $meta_key boolean option to case 8bit input to be delivered as ESC + the char with the hi bit stripped And IIRC, Mutt preferably used S-Lang rather than ncurses in the past. This could have an influence. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
