----- Original Message ----- | From: "Nick" <atod101...@gmail.com> | To: "xorg-devel" <xorg-devel@lists.x.org> | Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 12:27:46 AM | Subject: xterm: incorrect behavior with meta keys? rxvt and gnome-terminal behave correctly.
| Does anyone know why Emacs-like keybindings such as Meta-b (back word) and | Meta-f (forward word) do not behave correctly in 'xterm', but behave | correctly in 'rxvt' and 'gnome-terminal'? | | When pressing Meta_L-[b,p] in rxvt or gnome-terminal the Emacs behavior is | correct, jumping forwards and backwards a word. When pressing the same in | 'xterm' the following characters appear and the behavior isn't present: | Meta_L-b 'â ' , Meta_L-f ' æ'. This occurs both on MacOS and Debian Linux | 12. I tested both ksh and bash shells. | | I'm wondering if this is a bug in xterm, the shell or some other layer. | Any pointers on how to debug are appreciated. it's in the manpage: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:eightBitMeta (urxvt's manpage discussion is based on xterm's, but emacs is the original source of the problem) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
