Bug#729849: xterm: Meta key ≠ Alt key
Hi,
this is not a bug. The key labelled Alt is the Meta key, which
people use to write Umlauts and similar things:
http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/typing-8bit.html
xterm is a Unix terminal emulator. Unix terminals do not have
an Alt key, that is a PC/Windows® thing.
Applications such as irssi, that incorrectly say to use, for
example, Alt-1 to do an action, should instead document that,
correctly, Esc+1 is the way to invoke that action. So, for
your GNU nano example, it’s Esc+w.
bye,
//mirabilos
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