Calum Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 22:38 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > >>>>> 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? >>> >> I'm not sure how to follow up. Every time I've asked about this in the >> past, I've been promptly ignored. I don't know who I need to thwack to >> understand this complaint. >> > Well, it wouldn't hurt to add a comment to the bug report in response to > the last one ("is there still a problem here?")... that's where it's > going to get the most visibility with the GNOME folks. (Or perhaps Bob > could do that, as he's already contributed to the comment thread.) >
I don't use this feature so I'm afraid I'm not really the right person to comment. I don't like leading Esc chars. I prefer the Meta parity bit (which works fine with my favorite shell - zsh), and that's what my ancient comment was requesting. But my suggestion was rejected because it won't work with multibyte character input (which xterm never handled it seems). So I'm sticking to xterm for this and other reasons (mostly related to configurability of double- and triple- click selections as well as performance on Sun Ray). -Bob
