On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
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
I see (it would have been nice if Chet Ramey had responded to the bug
report in October - I updated my faq to address this detail).
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