From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M- vs. ESC Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:14:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105104897 22596 80.91.229.6 (7 Jan 2005 13:34:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 07 14:34:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmtyV-0006ZY-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:16:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cmu9q-0004GZ-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cmu9S-0004Db-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cmu9P-0004C8-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cmu9P-0004BY-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Cmtx1-0006iK-HS; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C136012D9F9F; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:14:44 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your own ZIPCODE? In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:49:48 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31999 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31999 Richard Stallman writes: > More specifically, when I type Meta-left at Emacs running in > > xterm it receives the key sequence [?\e ?\e ?O ?D], which get= s translated > > to [?\e left] through function-key-map. > > > > That is a surprise to me. Someone must have changed this in rece= nt > > years. > > In which way? What is the expected behaviour? > > That Meta-left turns into ESC left is strange. As Stefan already explained this is an option in xterm. If you want to handle 8-bit character input (including, but not limited to UTF-8) this i= s required. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."