Bug#348035: xterm: alt-backspace, alt-f, alt-b etc do not work any more

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>]

OoO En ce  début d'après-midi nuageux du samedi  14 janvier 2006, vers
14:05, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> disait:

>> Since recent upgrade to xterm 208, alt-backspace, alt-f and other
>> combinations do not work any more. The first one should delete a whole

> man xterm

>      eightBitInput (class EightBitInput)
>              If true, Meta characters input from the keyboard are
>              presented  as a single character with the eighth bit
>              turned on.  If false, Meta characters are  converted
>              into  a  two-character  sequence  with the character
>              itself preceded by ESC.  The default is ``true.''

> see also metaSendsEscape

Thanks, this works fine by setting this resource to false.
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