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Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 17:53:49 -0400
From: Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
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(Meant to send this to cygwin as well in case it helps anyone else.)

On 5/7/2011 2:24 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 28 April 2011 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote:

>> Beyond that, I found that I needed to:
>>
>> set convert-meta on
>
> That's not a solution for everyone, because it makes it impossible to
> enter characters beyond 7-bit ASCII. The setting means that input
> bytes with the eighth bit set have that bit cleared and are prefixed
> by an escape character instead.

> To make this work without enabling convert-meta, try using "\eb"
> instead of "\M-B". Here's why: << explanation deleted >>

Thank you, Andy!  Very helpful!

I found that this worked "out of the box" for stand-alone rxvt, but that for
xterm (my more usual terminal since I usually run under X) I had to fiddle
with my .Xdefaults and set XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true and altIsNotMeta: true
(the latter, confusingly (to me anyway) given its name, actually causes the
Alt key on my terminal to be considered as setting the Meta modifier in xterm).
The alt-b (for example) matches "\eb" in .inputrc.

Best wishes -- Eliot Moss

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