Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
>> 1. Applications should all behave the same way wrt handling of the >> Meta key in terminals. Advertising the smm capability makes that >> basically impossible. > > Basically, I'm dubious the gain from this is worth the effort. Presumably > Thomas has some reason for making xterm's default what it is currently, if > only "it's always been that way." The xterm terminfo entry does not currently advertise the smm capability, if I am reading "infocmp xterm" output correctly. > My guess is that most people who are > explicitly using xterm (which usually requires some effort these days, > since the desktop environments all default to something else) are pretty > big on "it's always been that way" behavior. :) I see. (I only know myself --- I use xterm because it is fast.) :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
