Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such
On 5 November 2010 18:30, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
[Sorry for not understanding what you were after.]
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> | Now after reading #574396 I see that with the xterm resources
> |
> | xterm*metaSendsEscape: false
> | xterm*eightBitInput: false
> |
> | and bash as shell meta-key combinations yield non-ASCII characters,
This I do not understand. "metaSendsEscape" defaults to false, and it
is precisely to obtain ASCII characters (e.g. Meta-p is sent as ESC P)
that one sets eightBitInput to false. With these two settings false,
only 7-bit ASCII characters are sent! (Setting either metaSendsEscape
to true or eightBitInput to false has the result that only 7-bit ASCII
is sent.)
> I guess we can rely on people to keep the default of metaSendsEscape?
Well, if they don't, they will have read the docs.
> Or perhaps a note in README.Debian would be needed to warn people.
> If you know what to do, please provide a patch. :) Otherwise, thoughts
> welcome.
What is wrong with patching xterm so that it defaults to eightBitInput
being false rather than true, as other terminals do? I would like to
see what Thomas Dickey thinks, in any case (Thomas, I hope you don't
mind the Cc:; see http://bugs.debian.org/326200 for the rest of this
thread.).
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