From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8190 invoked from network); 18 Dec 1996 11:38:26 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Dec 1996 11:38:26 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11430; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:14:10 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:06:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:07:14 +0100 (MET) From: "C. v. Stuckrad" X-Sender: stucki@petzval Reply-To: "C. v. Stuckrad" To: ZSH User Mailinglist Subject: Strange behaviour if zsh starts with a TERM that is unknown Message-ID: X-TestHeaderA: Written by C. v. Stuckrad; FB. Mathematik; EDV X-TestHeaderB: FU-Berlin; Arnimallee 2-6; 14195 Berlin; GERMANY Priority: normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"b5kzH2.0.5n2.i0zjo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/556 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hi! By 'messing up' my zsh-setup I found a strangely different behaviour of the following two cases: 1) Normal setup TERM=something_existing zsh starts and ZLE works, NOW I SET TERM to something unknown, (I get an errormessage) Single-Line-ZLE works 2) STARTUP of a zsh with UNKNOWN TERM *** NO ZLE WORKS (correctly) *** - delete (backspace) echo 'BLANKs' and move RIGHT ! - ^U echos as many blanks as there wee typed chars - ^L rewrites the 'Line', but without Newline/Carriage-Return It seems not to depend on the Version, as far back as 2.6. Clueless, Stucki PS.: Does somebody have a 'program' or 'script' which tests the existence of the 'current'(or a given) Terminal-Description. Christoph von Stuckrad * * | talk to | \ Freie Universitaet Berlin |/_* | nickname | ...!unido!fub!leibniz!stucki| Fachbereich Mathematik, EDV |\ * | 'stucki' | Tel:+49 30 838-7545{9|8} | Arnimallee 2-6/14195 Berlin * * | on IRC | Fax:+49 30 838-5913 /