Bug#651035: please decide how terminals should report Alt+letter combinations
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Basically, I'm dubious the gain from this is worth the effort. Presumably
>> Thomas has some reason for making xterm's default what it is currently, if
>> only "it's always been that way."
> The xterm terminfo entry does not currently advertise the smm
> capability, if I am reading "infocmp xterm" output correctly.
Note that I'm not arguing against changing things in xterm, particularly
in conjunction with upstream. Just that I'm not sure it's worth writing a
policy about this, rather than making decisions specifically about the
xterm package to make it work better, better serve its users, etc.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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