Re: ksh: set +o emacs-usemeta

[Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>]

Subject: ksh: set +o emacs-usemeta Date: Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:46:33PM +0200
Quoting Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de):
> Currently, our system ksh always interprets the 8th bit as meta
> (^[) prefix in emacs command-line editing mode.  This means that
> you cannot enter 8-bit characters for filenames etc.
>
> The small patch below makes this behavior configurable by way of a
> new emacs-usemeta shell option. "set +o emacs-usemeta" and type
> away characters with the 8th bit set.
>
> Do we want this?  Does anybody care?  Comments?

I want this. I care.

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