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. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
