Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Yes, I do, because that's what Emacs is receiving when I press
>> Meta-left, for example.  More specifically, when I type
>> Meta-left at Emacs running in xterm it receives the key sequence
>> [?\e ?\e ?O ?D], which gets translated to [?\e left] through
>> function-key-map.
>> 
>> That is a surprise to me.  Someone must have changed this in recent
>> years.

> He did not say what his input terminal is.  It may not be X.

He said it's an xterm.  I see the same behavior as he does.
It's been that way for as long as I can remember (the Meta->ESC mapping
done by xterm is an option, which needs to be ON if you want 8bit chars).


        Stefan