On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 3/23/10 6:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Chet Ramey wrote:
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).
I did. I sent the following questions (I have more, but this is a
start).
They were ignored, so I went on without the information.
My email says that I did respond to the mail you're quoting; that was
the last on that thread in October.
You didn't, actually. The last message I have from you
(<20091007005807.gb24...@invisible-island.net>) is a response to
<4acb5fd8.5080...@case.edu>, an earlier message in the sequence.
If you answered the questions I quoted, please resend that message and
we'll go on from there.
Don't you have my email from 06 October? (If it were on the Novell bug
report, it would be easier to reference).
All of the features in a terminal description are optional (or advisory,
depending on what term you prefer). They only tell the application
whether a terminal supports a feature and/or how to achieve a given
function.
The point of the bug report and followup discussion was that some users
prefer to switch off the mapping of eight-bit characters, to get the
escape character prefixing modified keys
man xterm
eightBitInput (class EightBitInput)
If "true", Meta characters (a single-byte character combined
with the Meta modifier key) input from the keyboard are pre-
sented as a single character with the eighth bit turned on.
The terminal is put into 8-bit mode. If "false", Meta charac-
ters are converted into a two-character sequence with the char-
acter itself preceded by ESC. On startup, xterm tries to put
the terminal into 7-bit mode. The metaSendsEscape and altSend-
sEscape resources may override this. The default is "true."
man 5 terminfo
If the terminal has a ``meta key'' which acts as a shift key, setting
the 8th bit of any character transmitted, this fact can be indicated
with km. Otherwise, software will assume that the 8th bit is parity
and it will usually be cleared. If strings exist to turn this ``meta
mode'' on and off, they can be given as smm and rmm.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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