Re: [PATCH] Remove ncurses meta() call.

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:30:14 +0800

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 01:14:51PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>I'm trying to debug exactly what it's doing on foot and xterm.  It 
>doesn't seem to be simply flipping bit-8 on, because setting $meta_key 
>isn't fixing the problem.  I haven't had time yet to look into it 
>deeply, but I will try this weekend.

Ah, I figured out what foot is doing with meta enabled, (and xterm 
without any metaSendsEscape settings).

If I type Alt-p, the terminal converts 'p', 0x70, to 0xF0, by flipping 
the high bit.  But then it encodes that in utf-8 and sends that to mutt. 
So mutt receives 0xC3 0xB0 in two getch() calls.

It's a mess.  Mutt has no business enabling this mode, and $meta_key 
isn't a solution since it goofs up typing utf-8 at the prompt.

I'm actually pondering pushing this commit to stable and releasing it 
with 2.4.1.  Feedback?

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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