Re: ksh: set +o emacs-usemeta

[Fredrik Henbjork <frehe491@student.liu.se>]

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I want this.

>  Does anybody care?

Yes, I care.

>  Comments?

Thanks for the patch! :-)
 
Fredrik Henbjork <frehe491@student.liu.se>