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Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

> Another thing to try: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm#Fix_the_.27Alt.27_key

The link above contains the method I eventually used. This, 
in my ~/.Xdefaults, works:

XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true

Thanks all who chimed in!

-- 
Bob Bernstein