text cursor is not being positioned

[Bengt-Arne Fjellner]

On 2010-03-23 12:30 AM, Lewis, John wrote:
> My text cursor is not being positioned correctly. This is a fresh
> install of 1.7.1-1 onto Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack
> 2.
>
> In the bash shell the backspace key doesn't back up and overwrite the
> last character, same with ctrl-U, the line remains on the screen, with
> the cursor at the end.
>
> The key strokes are being recognised, the characters have been removed
> from the input buffer correctly.
> I have the same issue with other tools, less and vi are unable to paint
> the screen correctly, and the up arrow at the command line just appends
> the history to the end of the current line.
>
> There exists a .inputrc in my $HOME, renaming it out of the way didn't
> change the behaviour. It contains (partially):
>
> # the following line is actually
> # equivalent to "\C-?": delete-char
> "\e[3~": delete-char
> # VT
> "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
> "\e[4~": end-of-line
> # kvt
> "\e[H": beginning-of-line
> "\e[F": end-of-line
>
>    
Show us the contents of your prompt PS1 these problem usually stems from 
that.


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