On January 20, 2022 4:10:28 PM PST, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >On 2022-01-20, lumidify <nob...@lumidify.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: >>> I had several accidental crashes which left lost+found in home folder. >>> up arrow fails in terminals and left arrow erases to the left instead of >>> moving. >> >> Exactly this behavior happens in vi mode ('set -o vi' in ~/.profile >> or ~/.kshrc), > >or by setting EDITOR=vi thanks to an annoying ksh feature. > >> but that seems somewhat unrealistic since I have no idea >> how it could be caused by the crashes. > >some config file could have been corrupted. > >
OMG! I was fiddling with some dotfiles suggested in a git repository for a bunch of things. Some were really good. I left exactly that by accident when I was experimenting. Thanks! Saved from disaster. Chris