On 2026-06-26 00:27:40 -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 14:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > The goal in the past was to get non-ASCII characters with the Meta key
> > on terminals where this was the only possibility.
> 
> That's news to me. Those characters would be the high half of ISO-8859-*,
> for European languages?

Yes.

> I know of another goal: to make Emacs work better on a terminal. That
> includes Mutt's emulation of some Emacs commands, including Meta-f and
> Meta-b (forward-word, backward-word).

This shouldn't matter. The default is that Meta sends the ESC character,
and this is what Emacs expects.

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