From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4206 invoked from network); 6 May 2002 15:24:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 May 2002 15:24:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 11028 invoked by alias); 6 May 2002 15:24:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4925 Received: (qmail 11001 invoked from network); 6 May 2002 15:24:00 -0000 From: "Olivier Laurent" Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:22:58 +0200 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: I lost the control key. Message-ID: <20020506152258.GA1594@debian> References: <20020506143422.GA1238@debian> <20020506165749.A17180@licia.dtek.chalmers.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020506165749.A17180@licia.dtek.chalmers.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i On lun, 06 mai 2002, Björn Johannesson wrote: > On Mon, May 06 2002, Olivier Laurent wrote: > > I lost the usage of the control key. I cannot go to the begining or the > > end of the command line by typing C-a or C-e for example. And I cannot > > search the history by typing C-r as another example. > > > > I don't have this problem in bash. If I'm in zsh and I type 'bash', I can > > use the control key. > > > > And the problem is user related: If I type 'su -' and type 'su oli' (oli > > is my username), I regain the usage of the control key. If I create a new > > user, he doesn't have this problem. > > > > I haven't changed anything in my configuration files. And if I remove the > > zsh configuration files, the problem remains. > > > > I'm using zsh 4.04 on Debian Woody (with a little bit of Sid). The Debian > > version of zsh is 4.04-14 (don't know if it helps). > > > > I can live without it but it's very annoying. > > I also had this problem once, it was because my $EDITOR=vim . Try to put > bindkey -e in your .zshrc It was the problem. Now it works with 'bindkey -e'. Thanks very much. -- Olivier Laurent. P3B    : Club Python(-Zope) Belge --------- http://www.p3b.org OS3B   : Club Open-Software(-Linux) Carolo  http://www.os3b.org Aragne : Python-Zope Solutions & Formations http://www.aragne.com