Re: 23.1; after upgrading to emacs-23, meta key in xterm no longer works

[Eduard Wiebe]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Does anyone on this list have xterm-253 available to test?  

Yes.

$ xterm -version
X.Org 6.8.99.903(253)

>> With "emacs23 -nw" running inside xterm-253, my meta key does not work
>> for things like M-x.  Instead, the terminal bell beeps, and the string
>> ;120~ appears in the buffer.  Looking at the log below, this is
>> because the terminal actually sent the string \e[27;3;120~ which is
>> occurring because emacs turned on the "modifyOtherKeys" setting with
>> the escape sequence \e[>4;1m at startup.  Older versions of emacs did
>> not do this, and everything worked fine.

I can't reproduce this on my machine.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD nirvana.pusto.de 7.2-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 #4: Wed Feb  3 
12:03:26 CET 2010     address@hidden:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>> Indeed, if I execute the command:
>>    (xterm-turn-off-modify-other-keys (selected-frame))
>> then my meta key temporarily starts working again.
>>
>> My normal Xterm settings are
>>   xterm*metaSendsEscape: true
>>   xterm*eightBitInput: false
>> which has always worked in previous versions.

Works fine too.

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Eduard Wiebe