Re: readline: edit (mode:vi) means eol unreachable

[Hugh Sasse]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Chet Ramey wrote:

> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > I have a problem with readline I think -- my setup is best described:
> 
> Sorry, I can't reproduce this with xterm or Mac OS X Terminal over ssh.
> I don't have or use Putty.

Well, given that I've not had this problem with vi or vim, so bash
seems to be doing something different, (which could also be correct
of course. These things are tricky to sort out since every terminal
has subtle differences).  So is there any software I can run that
would outdo script (-> a typescript file) in its ability to debug
this?

If I invoke an xterm from my session, using it with Exceed
version 8, I get a different kind of bug, namely that moving left
with the cursor key takes me out of insert mode and removes the
rightmost character from the display. Indeed, if I type a line of
text then

<left-arrow>a

repeatedly, I can delete the whole line. Meanwhile, in tcsh the cursor
behaves normally, using either terminal. 

I see that a terminfo entry for PuTTY is on the wishlist. So meanwhile
I've asked them to re-examine this.  
> 
> Chet
> 
        Thank you,
        Hugh