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Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:31:16 -0600
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Héctor Lahoz wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > In fact M+<many-keys> many letters and other char create letters with
> > various accents or the like:
> > 
> > M-x = ø
> > M-a = á
> > M-q = ñ
> 
> Don't know exactly. It depends on the terminal you're using.
> For example, this is seen in XTerm. If you use XTerm, you can
> solve that by toggling the option "Meta sends escape" which you
> can reach by C-down-Mouse-1 (Ctrl + left button).

That is what I do.  I run emacs in Xterm with the following Xresources set.

  XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true

Bob



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