retitle 574396 please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely reassign 574396 bash 4.1-2 clone 574396 -1 reassign -1 libreadline6 6.1-1 thanks
[Summary for newly added recipients: after a recent round of upgrades, I found that typing meta-key combinations into xterm with bash as my shell resulted in non-ASCII characters rather than the expected escape sequences. Further analysis revealed that the trigger was an update to xterm's terminfo entry (from ncurses-base), which added definitions of smm and rmm despite the comment in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444250#40 .] Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes: > That's already been discussed in SuSE - it's an issue with bash. > It should allow the decision whether to enable meta mode to be > configurable. bash's maintainer hasn't been cooperative. As of bash 4.1 (and the corresponding readline 6.1 release), there is now an enable-meta-key readline variable that has the desired effect. Bash and readline have logic (_rl_init_eightbit) to set related variables (convert-meta, input-meta, and output-meta) sanely in eight-bit locales, but always leave enable-meta-key on by default; could you please patch _rl_init_eightbit to set _rl_enable_meta = 0 in eight-bit mode? Thanks! > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_21 ITYM http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_216 . -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
