I’m on a fresh Virtualbox install of CentOS 6.4.
After installing zsh 5.0.2 from source using ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
and setting it as the shell with chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
, everything is good.
Then some time after, after installing python it seems, it starts acting strange.
- Happens with PuTTY and iTerm2 over SSH, does not happen on the raw terminal through Virtualbox.
- typing something, then erasing it: rather than removing the char and moving the cursor back, the cursor moves forward.
- Typing Ctrl+V then Backspace repeatedly prints out this repeating pattern ‘^@?’
- Running cat from zsh works fine. Prints out ‘^H’ if I type that, backspaces like normal if I type normal backspace.
Surely someone’s seen this before and knows exactly what the hell it is.
I’m not positive yet, but it seems that installing oh-my-zsh
can fix this. But I really want to know what the specific issue is here.
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Answer
sigh I knew I solved this before.
It’s too damn easy to forget things.
The solution is to compile and apply the proper terminfo data with tic
, as I have a custom config with my terminal clients, xterm-256color-italic
, that confuses zsh.
There appear to be other ways to configure this stuff too; I basically just need it to be properly set up so italics work everywhere (including in tmux) so hopefully I can figure out how to do this more portably than I am currently.