Bug#651035: please decide how terminals should report Alt+letter combinations
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@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.
Sorry, I meant backspace here. Not everyone uses Delete (I don't, for
example). But even there, I think more people use both than use the Alt
key in a terminal.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: