In preferences, there is a check box for "Use Option as Meta Key" but it doesn't actually do what I was expecting. I was expecting it to just set the 8th bit so that "c" produces #63 and "meta-c" would produce #e3. But that isn't what it does. Instead it prepends and escape to it producing two characters #1B #63.
zsh can cope with this but it messes with my brain. I'd rather set my bindings to be "\M-c" because that is what I'm typing instead of "^[c" because that is what Terminal decides to send.
If I don't set the "Use Option as Meta Key", then the key map is all funky Unicode characters when I hit the Option / Meta key.
Is there a way to remedy this?
I know some folks at work use something besides Terminal for their command line stuff. Are there recommendations perhaps for alternative apps?
zsh can cope with this but it messes with my brain. I'd rather set my bindings to be "\M-c" because that is what I'm typing instead of "^[c" because that is what Terminal decides to send.
If I don't set the "Use Option as Meta Key", then the key map is all funky Unicode characters when I hit the Option / Meta key.
Is there a way to remedy this?
I know some folks at work use something besides Terminal for their command line stuff. Are there recommendations perhaps for alternative apps?