Re: I lost the control key.

["Björn Johannesson" <d00bjojo@dtek.chalmers.se>]

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

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