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Re: decmips 7.7A: tcsh: Compose Character + key != ESC-key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 5 14:19:26 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 94 14:19:05 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
This problem was caused by something in Bruce's Xresources.
From 7.6 /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm:
XTerm*eightBitInput: false
From 7.7 /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm:
*eightBitInput: false
The latter resource specification is more correct for an app-defaults
file, as it it less specific.
However, Bruce's Xresources specified:
XTerm*EightBitInput: true
This specification is less specific than the 7.6 default resources,
and was therefore overridden. However, it is more specific than the
7.7 default resources, and so overrode them.
I suspect the change correcting default resource specifications from
R4 to R5 applies across all the R5 apps, so it's possible that other
people could be bitten by analogous problems.
Craig
