From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8943 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 11:55:18 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 11:55:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 73609 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 11:55:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 11:55:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 24170 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2004 11:54:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8185 Received: (qmail 24156 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 11:54:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 11:54:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 71712 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 11:53:23 -0000 Received: from 220-244-116-62-nsw.tpgi.com.au (HELO localhost) (220.244.116.62) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 11:53:22 -0000 Received: from nicko by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQlbQ-0001zG-00; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:53:00 +1100 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:53:00 +1100 From: Nick Croft To: "Matthias B." Cc: Nick Croft , DervishD , zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: bindkey -v and alt-. for previous cmd arg Message-ID: <20041107115300.GA3107@tandv.ws> References: <20041103124858.GA1476@tandv.ws> <20041103135335.GB22247@DervishD> <20041103194444.GB1476@tandv.ws> <20041103195700.GA23399@DervishD> <20041103200138.GA23419@DervishD> <20041104114333.GC1476@tandv.ws> <20041104152010.61207970@buddha.localdomain.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041104152010.61207970@buddha.localdomain.de> X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.tandv.ws/ Organisation: Theme and Variations X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.21-xfs (i686) X-Uptime: 22:47:30 up 1 day, 7 min, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 0.0 * Matthias B. (msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de) wrote: > > No, that's not how it works. It's just that in some terminals (the Linux > console for example, at least with some keymaps) Alt-. produces ESC-. > But this is by no means standard. In my Xterm, when I press Alt-. I get > the (R) registered trademark sign I found that the usual zsh behaviour of alt-. could be had in any other terminal but xterm, or on the console. I downgraded to xterm 4.1.0 (from 4.3.0), and the problem is fixed. I've filed a bug report in the (debian) system, under xterm. I'm very relieved to be able to get back to business. Thanks, Nick Croft