On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Reuben Thomas wrote:What is wrong with patching xterm so that it defaults to eightBitInput being false rather than true, as other terminals do?Nothing I can see except that we are in a freeze. It is probably worth making the change anyway, but I will leave that to the emacs users. Re interaction with metaSendsEscape: of course it would not confuse new users, but would existing configurations might start to misbehave?
probably. It's configurable at runtime (menu and escape sequence) because this is an area where half the users want it one way, the other half the other way.
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