Bug#260232: xterm: XTerm*metaSendsEscape no longer working

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas,
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:58:34PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > the above is no longer working after an upgrade to the versions below.
> > Before that I could use: Alt-f, Alt-b to jump whole words forward or
> > backward in a bash running within xterm. This doesn't work anymore,
> > ESC-f, ESC-b still works though. Any ideas where to start digging?
> 
> man xterm
> 	metaSendsEscape
I'm not sure I understand this. I have this on, and it stopped working
recently, I can't find any hint in the manpage, for the cause of this.
Cheers,
 -- Guido