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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: trouble with R4 xterm
Message-ID: <9105022306.AA22501@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 2 May 91 23:06:18 GMT
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>> meta-s in R4 xterm just dumps an "s" to the terminal

> In the xterm manual page it lists the default bindings for the meta
> key as:

> 	~Meta<KeyPress>: insert-seven-bit() \n\
> 	 Meta<KeyPress>: insert-eight-bit() \n\

> What does the `~' mean?

"not".  The first binding should be read as "KeyPress, when Meta is
not active".

> Is the meta key on our system being interpreted as ~Meta?

Doubtful.  More likely the bindings are somehow mangled - perhaps the
keycodes corresponding to Meta_L and/or Meta_R aren't tied to a
modifier bit? - or perhaps xterm is generating a very nice o-acute but
somewhere along the line between its being written to the pty and its
being echoed and showing up on your screen the high bit is being
dropped.

					der Mouse

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