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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Kevin J. McCarthy wrote in
<20260628121...@8t8.us>:
|On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 08:47:44AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
|>On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 01:20:46PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
|>[...]
|>> In addition to xterm and foot, I've also tested ghostty, alacritty, \
|>> kitty,
|>> and gnome-terminal. Those last four seem unaffected by the change. If
|>> there are other terminals anyone can suggest (that don't involve \
|>> too many
|>> dependencies) I'll be glad to try them out too.
|>
|>I use st[0], don't know if has a large enough user base to be relevant.
|>But it's quite popular in my bubble.
|>
|>[0]: https://st.suckless.org/
|
|Thanks Rene. I've tested st and it has no problems. Both with and
|without the meta() call, it send Esc-prefixed with the alt-key.

I am using it for years, too. 'Could be it is the culprit for
changing things in my xorg[<>dwm]<>st/tmux<>bash setup by removing
zero-width characters; ie if i paste something and use wc(1) -c,
then copy+paste it again things have changed.
It is ok in that my own stuff is just equally bad. But is not "no
problems", generally speaking.

--steffen
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