Alt-o in xterm

[Russell Shaw]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> kilgota at 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.

It seems i made a mistake.

I found that this does not enable alt-sends-escape:

   XTerm*eightBitInput: true
   XTerm*altSendsEscape: true


However, this does:

   XTerm*eightBitInput: false
   XTerm*altSendsEscape: true


and this too:

   XTerm*eightBitInput: true
   XTerm*altSendsEscape: true
   XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true