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

For the history (from some old messages I have in my archives):

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From: "Andrej N. Gritsenko" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Meta key bug.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 23:07:10 +0300

    Hi, Robert Richard George 'reptile' Wal!

Sometime (on Sunday, July 26 at 22:44) I've received something...
>On 98.07.26 Andrej N. Gritsenko pressed the following keys:
>>     Hi, Robert Richard George 'reptile' Wal!
>> Sometime (on Sunday, July 26 at 15:30) I've received something...
>> >On 98.07.26 Andrej N. Gritsenko pressed the following keys:
>> >>     Tell me why I cannot to use meta key with Mutt 0.94i that compiled
>> >> with S-Lang? When I enter command 'macro index \ez ":unset mark_old\r"',
>>                                                   ^^^
>> >> this command work fine if and only if I press <Esc> then <z>. When I
>> >> press <Alt+Z> (my keyboard supports Alt as meta key), that command don't
>> >> work anymore. I using S-Lang 1.2.2, platforms: Linux 2.0.30 and FreeBSD
>> >> 2.2.6.
>
>Oops... I just noticed, that in mutt-0.93i with slang-1.2.2 it doesn't work,
>just as you specified.

    As Liviu Daia wrote me, it is a S-Lang bug and I've big thanks for
him for fix-patch to that library. :)

>>     I really won't sent char with high bit set.
>You will e.g. with xterm.

    May be, may be... But as I said, I print cyrillic letters what always
have high bit set. :)

>> Because I have _good_ chars with it. I want to interpret Meta-z (it is
>> sequence <ESC><z>, FYI, RTFM)
>No. Meta-z is z with highest bit set. Esc-z is Esc-z. (at least on xterm
>which I use)

    Well, well, well... JFYI, there are two meta-functions of keyboard.
First (on 7-bit terminals, for ASCII support only) have eight bit set for
this. Second (on Linux or FreeBSD console, configurable into keymap, for
non-ASCII support) have <ESC>-char sequence for this. :)

    WBR. Andrej.
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I couldn't find anything else on the subject for Mutt.

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