ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

[Hermann]

Hi,
from the beginning of my use of Speakup on GRML, I observe a strange
thing:
When I type any command at the prompt, the first letter is spoken twice,
so taht, if you have a two-letter-command, you hear three letters - the
first one twice.
It only happens when using ZSH and in no other app. When I call bash
Speakup speaks correctly.
Can someone confirm this? Are there any work arounds?
Hermann

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Re: ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:47:21PM +0200, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> from the beginning of my use of Speakup on GRML, I observe a strange
> thing:
> When I type any command at the prompt, the first letter is spoken twice,
> so taht, if you have a two-letter-command, you hear three letters - the
> first one twice.
> It only happens when using ZSH and in no other app. When I call bash
> Speakup speaks correctly.
> Can someone confirm this? Are there any work arounds?
> 
I can at least confirm this.  I don't know of any workarouns, and have
just learned to ignore the extra speech.  I believe the problem is with
the way zsh uses the terminal: it would seem to redraw something so that
speakup thinks the screen has been updated.
I don't know this for certain, but it seems logical to me.
Incidentally, could this be the problem with vim as well?
Best,
Zack.

Re: ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

[Michael Whapples]

I notice the same with zsh. I don't have a fix for zsh, instead I 
decided to switch to bash as the default shell by using the chsh command.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> from the beginning of my use of Speakup on GRML, I observe a strange
> thing:
> When I type any command at the prompt, the first letter is spoken twice,
> so taht, if you have a two-letter-command, you hear three letters - the
> first one twice.
> It only happens when using ZSH and in no other app. When I call bash
> Speakup speaks correctly.
> Can someone confirm this? Are there any work arounds?
> Hermann
>
>    

Re: ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

[Tyler Spivey]

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:50:06PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> I notice the same with zsh. I don't have a fix for zsh, instead I  
> decided to switch to bash as the default shell by using the chsh command.
>
I've been using zsh daily for years.
You might not need to change your prompt, but if things break, try it.
try adding this to your .zshrc:
unsetopt prompt_cr
setopt singlelinezle
#Change the prompt to machinename%, for example
export PS1='%m%# '
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Re: ZSH: The first letter of a command gets repeated

[Hermann]

On 20.06.2009 at 03:49:48 Tyler Spivey <tspivey@pcdesk.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:50:06PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
>> I notice the same with zsh. I don't have a fix for zsh, instead I  
>> decided to switch to bash as the default shell by using the chsh command.
>>
> I've been using zsh daily for years.
> You might not need to change your prompt, but if things break, try it.
> try adding this to your .zshrc:

Thanks, that worked, but I don't understand the last line, so I omitted
it; there seem to be no consequences.
If "m" stands for machine, I should insert "grml" here, but thsi
destroyed my prompt (rml#).
Hermann