On 3 November 2010 04:52:29 UTC, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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). -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
