Bug#534192: xterm: Enable metaSendsEscape by default?

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 242-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

By default, metaSendsEscape is set to false, which makes the meta
key useless by default in readline-based programs, since the default
readline configuration is to enable 8bit-clean mode.  Shouldn't we
enable metaSendsEscape by default?  What is the use of meta setting the
8th bit?  Just stream optimization?

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-3        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.1-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.5-2      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.13-3       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.4-1youpi X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.4+1      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.3+18   X Window System utility programs m

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii  xfonts-cyrillic               1:1.0.0-6  Cyrillic fonts for X

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