emacs -nw 8 bit meta

I am trying to set console emacs to use 8-bit meta rather than interpreting it as a character. The reason for this is so I can use meta as a modifier in Vim for my own keybindings. So setting xterm to "Meta Sends Escape" is not an option.

I would think that setting meta-flag would do what I want as described below, but meta-flag no longer appears to be a variable in this version of emacs (23.1.1)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/emacs18/emacs%5F6.html

Also the set-input-mode seems to do what I want but it also isn't in my version of emacs.

google: set-input-mode interrupt flow meta quit-char

(Sorry, I can only use 1 link)

Any ideas or alternatives?

Jason Axelson

Posted 2009-10-06T07:24:45.890

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Answers

Basically, 8-bit meta is ancient deprecated stuff. Nobody wants to waste a whole bit on Meta anymore. And with Unicode and all these modern newfangled things, people do not want to be restricted to inputting US-ASCII. Besides, ¡unɟ sᴉ ǝpoɔᴉu∩

Teddy

Posted 2009-10-06T07:24:45.890

Reputation: 5 504

Interesting, that could explain why it is so hard to find information about it. Do you know any good alternatives? – Jason Axelson – 2009-10-25T09:30:57.837

@Bostonvaulter: Your reason for wanting 8-bit meta is something in Vim - I don't use it, so I can't help you there. – Teddy – 2009-10-25T19:33:42.070

Yeah, perhaps there is some way to get vim to work without 8-bit meta. – Jason Axelson – 2009-10-27T06:04:53.337