On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:
users be able to understand which setting they are likely to want, but also stop complaining about the default (as I am doing!). I'm also interested to know why this is the default in xterm, but not in gnome-terminal, konsole or unicode-rxvt. Is it the default in any other modern terminal?
None of those are "modern" in the sense that you'd like to imply. In each case, the design dates back at least ten years (longer in the case of rxvt-unicode, which uses the convention from rxvt in the mid 1990s). Likewise, the "modern" issue we're discussing is emacs's use of a feature older than that. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net