On 2026-06-26 17:46:45 -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 17:51 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > 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. > > Emacs accepts both, at least when the character set is ASCII.
If the 8th bit is interpreted as being Meta, then it is no longer possible to have non-ASCII characters in input. -- 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)
