Thanks Andy, your explanation was extremely helpful. For the longest time it was unclear whether the Alt key issue was related to LANG/LC_*, readline / .inputrc, xterm, X resources, or something else entirely. ASCII is much simpler :-) At any rate, things are good now.
FWIW, on my Linux box running Slackware64 and twm, I changed LANG from the default en_US to to en_US.UTF-8. This caused the same issue as on Cygwin, and the same .Xdefaults entry fixed it. Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
