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Bug#280118: xterm: alt-. gives wrong signal to zsh



On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:27:11AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Upgrading to xterm 4.3.0 caused the (often used) alt-. to send the wrong signal
> > > to zsh (4.0.4 and later) in viins mode.  Alt-. is used in zsh to insert the
> > > last argument of the previous cmd line. 
> > > 
> > > The behaviour is as expected in emacs-mode. More importantly it is as expected
> > > in viins mode in any other shell or the console. Downgrading to 4.0.4 `fixed'
> > > the problem.
> > 
> > That's one bug report (but it's actually against the X libraries).
> 
> Any idea which one?  Xlib, I guess?  Can you elaborate a bit on what you
> think is wrong?

ugh - I should write this one down.  Lacking more specific information, it
sounds as if he's running into the one that was confusing meta and alt. 
googling for "Debian" and "metaSendsEscape", I see for instance #260232,
#215034.

(I don't know how far along your resolution of it is - thought the number
of new reports had gone down).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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