Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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. > > Heh. Yeah, well it doesn't work for me the way they describe it.
Do you want to follow it up, or is Alt working enough for you? > 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.) :-( You can turn them all off in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog: http://library.gnome.org/gnome-terminal/unstable/gnome-terminal-usage.html.en#gnome-terminal-shortcuts -- James Andrewartha
