[Iterm-discuss] Various issues

[Mihai M. <io...@io...>]

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Hey all,

as I've been using iTerm for quite some time now, I have experienced its
benefits, as well as its problems.

One of those is that iTerm seems to be unable to draw full lines
correctly, or actually mangles them quite a bit. That is to say,
sometime a line is repeated over and over again, sometimes there are
just blank lines popping out of nowhere.
The problem with this bug: it's hard to track, I'd rather say almost
impossible, as it's not very reproducible.
Fixing it manually works fine through: just scroll up until the "borken"
parts are, well, scrolled away and scroll down again. Most likely iTerm
will redraw those previously borken regions without any problem (and for
that matter, as they should look like.)
It may be related to the Blur or transparency option, not sure about
that. I'll try running it without the Blur option as soon as I've got
some time.

Next, there is the cruel world of keyboard mappings and special
character input.

Let's start with the first one.

I'd like to map word jumping (back and forth) to Cmd/Apl + Left/Right
Arrow Key. In Terminal.app, I have defined two keybindings for those
two, both echoing an escape sequence.
The sequence in question was \033b (backwards jumping) and \033f
(forwards jumping.) However, I have not been able to bind those keys or
escape sequences in iTerm. I have tried with [033b/f, 033b/f, even
translated it to hex (that is, 0x1bb/0x1bf) or whatever. Every effort
was unsuccessful and the given examples in the xterm keyboard profile
didn't really shed a light on me, so I'm kinda lost.
Do you know how to do that right?

Then again, I've got some real problems with UTF8 input (and most
impressively, also output.)
For once, my Option (Alt) key is not set to "Meta", so this shouldn't
cause any problems. When I try to input something like an Umlaut, iTerm
and zsh composes the two chars fine to one one Umlaut (e.g. ¨+ U = Ü.)
Now, trying to access any directory or file with Umlauts will be a pain
in the ass, as
1.) completion does not work. Actually, something like "cd Ütest" will
work, but zsh (version 4.3.10, that is, UTF-8 aware) won't be able to
auto complete the path or anything.
Also, such files or directories will be listed as so:
"Ü test".

Completion does ONLY work when trying to complete stuff via "U<Tab>",
which will cause such output: ls U<0308> (Where <0308> is highlighted
black on white, whilst my normal color scheme is white on black.)

So I guess this whole composing stuff is broken, but I'm not sure
whether it's iTerm or zsh.

The locale is set to en_US.UTF-8, so it ACTUALLY should work fine.


Another problem is iTerm's tab handling. The look and feel is set to
Aqua, though I don't know whether it changes anything but the how it
looks, anyway.
When clicking on a tab, however, it's very likely that nothing happens.
Only clicking on it again will activate it - and for that matter also
open up the "Info" window about this very tab. I guess that's some sort
of a bug.


So, any ideas? :)

Best regards,


Mihai Moldovan

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