jbracher@weber.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) (11/20/90)
I would like to get the "meta" key to work inside the jove editor running under xterm. RIght now, if I type "meta-v" to go backwards for instance, an ordinary "v" comes out. I know the editor works ok, because I managed to get the meta keys to work under Sunview. I am running MIT X11R4 on a Sparcstation 1. If under an xterm window, I type stty -istrip then, meta+some keys do in fact produce weird characters that I presume to be the 8th-bit-set charaters. However, if I run "jove" or even "vi" the meta-effect ceases to work, and a "stty -a" afterwards reveals that istrip has been reset to it's original state. I'm not sure what causes this but could it have something to do with curses? I know that the X server sees the meta-key because the window-manager uses it just fine. I know I could go out and try to build Gnu Emacs for X but I'd like to keep my editing at the mere 500k per xterm instead of double that. I apologize if this is a simple problem, but I cannot divine the guts of the xterm or the xmodmap man pages. Thanks alot, Matt K. mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu