On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 14:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
The goal in the past was to get non-ASCII characters with the Meta key on terminals where this was the only possibility.
That's news to me. Those characters would be the high half of ISO-8859-*, for European languages?
I know of another goal: to make Emacs work better on a terminal. That includes Mutt's emulation of some Emacs commands, including Meta-f and Meta-b (forward-word, backward-word).
