From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14980 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1996 13:28:19 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Dec 1996 13:28:19 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA22596; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:20:23 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:13:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:14:28 -0500 From: mito@sprynet.com (Louis-David Mitterrand) To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: weird terminal behavior (moving 4-places at a time) References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mito@sprynet.com In-Reply-To: ; from C. v. Stuckrad on Dec 10, 1996 13:48:00 +0100 Resent-Message-ID: <"4czof.0.NU5.t7Mho"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/546 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Dec 10 96, C. v. Stuckrad wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > A funny behaviour occurs sometime that I never saw on bash: when editing > > the command line or going through history with the arrow keys, the > > cursor's moves become jerky. When you keep pressing the key the cursor > > seems to move four spaces at a time. Yet the strangest thing is that it > > occurs sometimes and then goes away... > > I always assumed this to be X11-Protocol, or some terminal-driver or > daemon interaction, as it is the more prominent the longer/slower the line > is on which you are connected. I see the same behavior for many tools as > telnet, rlogin, ssh. (It might be connected to the curses library ?) > No, it's much simpler than that, as Zoltan pointed out to me by private e-mail. It has to do with with the BAUD setting of the terminal which is automatically set when the shell starts up. This setting should be set to 0 when using and xterm or console on the local machine. export BAUD=0 # that's what I did and everything works like a charm Cheers. -- Louis-David Mitterrand (Formula 1): http://www.zoom.com/mito/ (Java page): http://www.zoom.com/mito/quote/ mito@sprynet.com