Re: Alt-o in xterm

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > kilgota banach math auburn edu wrote:
> > > I am merely curious. I do not use the funny character mappings for 
> > > anything, myself. But I can imagine that someone might want to use 
> > > those sometimes and use mc on other occasions. Thus, I find myself 
> > > wondering whether
> > >
> > >   *eightBitInput: false
> > >
> > > would turn that off completely, or not.
> >
> > It seems it does. In vim, before i'd get "i" with diaeresis, now i get 
> > ^[o.
> >
> > In gvim, i still get "i" with diaeresis now. Obviously it would affect
> > someone that wanted to see unicode chars in a terminal (non-X) editor.
>
> That (having both alt-something and entering unicode) is what 
> metaSendsEscape and altSendsEscape are supposed to help with...

Ok, i now have:

  XTerm*altSendsEscape: true

in ~/.Xresources (on debian)

Also have to xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources when changing things.