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Re: XTerm metaSendsEscape not working


On 11/9/2011 8:09 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jesse Ziser wrote:

Hello,

I find that adding the following:

XTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true
XTerm*vt100.altSendsEscape: true
XTerm*vt100.eightBitInput: false

to my .Xdefaults does not seem to change the way XTerm behaves WRT
meta-key handling. It still sends 0xF7 for meta-W, for example (or the
UTF-8 equivalent, depending on how I set LANG in the environment).

I've also tried this:

XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
XTerm*altSendsEscape: true
XTerm*eightBitInput: false

to no avail. However, adding lines like the following:

Meta <Key>W: string(0x1b) string("w") \n

well, there's more than one aspect to the problem. xterm is looking for whatever is used for the modifier which corresponds to the meta key. But X doesn't have that as a standard modifier. So xterm looks at the modifiers and determines which one it is. It might be the same as an Alt-key, and it might not. So there's altSendsEscape as a workaround for that case.

On the other hand, if there are translations using the key that xterm
finds to be the "meta" key, then xterm refrains from using it as a
modifier, unless (for example) the alwaysUseMods resource is set to true.

OK, removing all translations involving Meta did indeed fix it, and so did setting alwaysUseMods to true. So I guess it wasn't a Cygwin-specific issue then after all, just a manpage comprehension issue. Thanks!


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