Simon Law wrote: |> Have you tried opening a plain old xterm? What about your PS1? |> Maybe your prompt is doing funny stuff.
Thanks for your reply, Simon. The problem is unique to Eterm---nothing similar with xterm or with rxvt (or in the console). But it turned out that the problem was in .bash_profile. Ages ago I put this into the file: echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' (to control the terminal beep) When I commented out that line, the problem disappeared. I don't know why this version of Eterm (as opposed to earlier ones, and as opposed to xterm and rxvt) was sensitive to this, but it was, Jim
