description of the "meta" command of ratpoison: meta Send a `C-t' to the current window `C-t' is ratpoison's keybindings prefix, (like `C-a' in screen). it's also "jump to older entry in a tag stack" binding in vim. "meta" command is bound to `C-t t' by default and it works for GUI applications (e.g. it opens new tag in MozillaFirebird). It doesn't seem to reach vim running inside xterm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start xterm in ratpoison 2. start vim inside xterm 3. open help window and follow some tag there with `C-]' 4. try to get back entering `C-t t' - it won't. try the same with :pop - it will. Actual Results: vim doesn't notice `C-t'. i suppose no console application inside xterm will (i don't know other applications using this key combination from top of my head) Expected Results: oh, come on, this field is redundant Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.1-r2, 2.4.20-acpi-r9) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-acpi-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb readline arts bonobo svga tcltk java guile postgres sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr X gtk2 gnome Xaw3d xv -alsa -qt -kde dvd mbox -slang 3dnow acpi truetype tetex nls doc"
Apparently this problem happens on all programs run via xterm. There is a thread on the ratpoison developers ML that explains this a little more. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5879283 Basically in order to get it to work right, you'll have to choose another keybinding for it in your ratpoisonrc
