On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Richard Hartmann wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 21:47, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see why typing ' -w' should insert '-w '? (Typing the same 
>> sequence in vim produces the same as in zsh, ie, pressing w jumps to 
>> the start of the next word, not the end of the current one).
>
> To be honest, I ignored whatever he meant by '-w'.
>
>
>> I also can't reproduce the prompt issue, that's probably a broken 
>> setup. Ask him to reproduce from zsh -f.
>
> I can.
>
> % zsh -f
> % setopt GLOB EXTENDED_GLOB MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST RC_EXPAND_PARAM \
>       HIST_EXPIRE_DUPS_FIRST HIST_IGNORE_DUPS HIST_VERIFY CORRECT HASH_CMDS \
>       PRINT_EXIT_VALUE RC_QUOTES AUTO_CONTINUE MULTIOS VI INC_APPEND_HISTORY \
>       APPENDHISTORY
> % unsetopt beep
> % unset MAIL
> % unicode  -w䷥
> <errors I forgot>
> % <arrow_up><arrow_down><arrow_up><arrow_down><arrow_up><arrow_down>
>
> The last one eats the prompt. Done within terminator 0.95

It's not a zsh issue.  I can reproduce under terminator using bash, too.

$ terminator -e bash
someprompt> ䷥
If '䷥' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package 
that contains it, like this:
     cnf ䷥
someprompt> <Up><Down><Up><Down> ... (eats one prompt char per cycle)

-- 
Best,
Ben