Bug#651721: #651721 bash: M-f, M-b, M-Bksp broken on upgrade

[Thomas Dickey]

>I never use xterm, as the bash/readline navigation keys have long been
>unusable under xterm.  I just gave xterm a shot - M-b in xterm enters a
>"a" at the bash prompt.  (I suspect this xterm issue is #574396, but it
>seems much older than May 2010 to me.)

Probably not, given the release.  infocmp tells me that neither "xterm"
nor "xterm-debian" have smm/rmm on either unstable or testing
("xterm-new" does, but people using gnome-terminal are unlikely to set
TERM).

This thread doesn't mention eightBitInput - that's been the usual answer
for bash.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
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