Ok so the problem only occurs with zsh.

If you reproduce the problem inside tmux and then press C-b r (where C-b
is your tmux prefix key), does the cursor move to the right place?



On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 01:08:54PM +0000, John Long wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 01:58:33PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> 
> > Ok, but is that behaviour just at the shell prompt, or if you run "cat"
> > then do the same, ie you are typing in cat rather than at the shell,
> > does the cursor also move wrongly? Eg do:
> > 
> > $ cat
> > abcdef<backspace>
> > 
> > Instead of at the shell prompt.
> 
> Yes, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you earlier (face-palm). I tried this now
> with and without tmux and backspace works fine in both cases, going
> backwards and erasing the characters.
> 
> > I'm trying to work out if this is because tmux is getting the wrong
> > thing from zsh, or getting the right thing from zsh but displaying the
> > wrong thing for xterm.
> 
> Wondering about this earlier, I switched to bash before invoking tmux and I
> had the same issue with backspace going forward and not erasing.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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