Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such
On 3 November 2010 04:52:29 UTC, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Could you give a pointer or elaborate on the ramifications (perhaps an
> example)? Mostly I am curious.
xterm(1) has the details.
> Probably in response to your request, at some point between xterm 204
> and 208 it learned an alt-sends-esc menu item to toggle this at will.
I'd much rather have this as the default. I note that urxvt also
defaults to Meta+key sending an escape (it calls the resource "meta8",
and defaults to false). I have not come across any negative
ramifications (obviously, it is no longer possible to produce certain
characters with Meta, but there are better ways to produce most
non-ASCII printing characters).
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