James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:43 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> (And if anyone has any
>> insight into how to get this feature added to gnome-terminal, I'd like
>> to hear that too. I wonder from time to time if gnome-terminal might be
>> less expensive due to shared implementation than xterm... .but maybe not.)
>>
>
> The relevant GNOME bug is
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31316 and while it's claimed
> to work, it doesn't for me. Looking at the vte source
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/vte/trunk/src/vte.c?revision=1910&view=markup
> there's a variable meta_sends_escape which is set by default, but it doesn't
> seem to be working.
>
> James Andrewartha.
>
Heh. Yeah, well it doesn't work for me the way they describe it.
However, *ALT* does send the escape sequences, but only for keystrokes
that don't map to menu actions (by default), which makes it largely
useless for most common emacs-ish keystrokes (Meta-f, etc.) :-(
-- Garrett
