Greetings,
I just posted this to gtk-i18n-list, but I think gnome-list is more
appropriate.
I just started using a new install of Ubuntu 9.04 this morning. I am
getting very confusing (for me) behavior just typing into the Term
(Gnome Terminal) window. The first thing I noticed was that single
quote (') was behaving strange: If I type one quote, nothing appears on
the command line. Figuring I had not hit the key hard enough, I typed
it again and a an end quote character appeared (looks like the opposite
of the begin quote (`)). This end-quote is not treated as a normal
quote (') character by command line processing. For example if I issue
the command:
> echo 'foo'
foo
But if I enter this command (using <end-quote> to represent the single
end-quote character which-I-cannot-type-into-this-email):
> echo <end-quote>foo<end-quote>
<end-quote>foo<end-quote>
The quotes are not stripped off.
I'm having a similiar issue with the double quote (") character. I have
to type it twice for something to appear and what appears is an
end-double-quote, the opposite of a begin-double-quote. Also, when I
type a tilde(~) nothing happens, I have to type two tildes to get one to
appear on my command line.
Wow. All I want to do is type in normal commands where the text I type
in is the same as the text on my keyboard.
I've spent almost two hours trying to figure out what is wrong. It
looks like my terminal is in "compose mode", something I had never heard
of before this morning. When I use the Vi editor, it is also in compose
mode.
How can I turn this behavior off? Why is it turned on?
-Sam
_______________________________________________
gnome-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
