Back to original question - why does my prompt change to "arg: 3" when I hit Alt+3?

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven., 2010-11-05 at 13:25 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> If I run *exactly* the same login etc. but with an xterm then I don't
> get readline() stealing my Alt key.  I'm running *exactly* the same bash
> and everything in the xterm but it most certainly *doesn't* give the
> multiplier and so on when entering Alt+character.

Just a random thought, but maybe *they* steal your alt key, preventing
bash to see it.
> 
> Similarly in rxvt and other terminal windows, none of them exhibit this
> readline() behaviour.
> 
> So it's *somehow* related to xfce-terminal even if only to the extent
> that xfce-terminal tells readline() that the Meta key is Alt and xterm
> and rxvt *don't* tell readline() that the Meta key is Alt. 

Try to set $TERM to various values too.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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