Bob Doolittle wrote:
> 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).
Heh. Maybe I should file a bug against tcsh that it should support the
Meta parity bit.
In the meantime, I also continue to use xterm. I'm unmotivated at the
moment to try to get anyone from the Gnome team to understand why I want
the Meta-escape substitution.
Its also not clear to me at all that Meta sends the parity bit encoded
properly anyway. Certainly, it doesn't seem to work with gnome-terminal
and zsh in snv68.
-- Garrett
>
> -Bob
>
