Re: code completition / cannot delete characters

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 9,  3:29pm, Michael Worobcuk wrote:
}
} Hi Bart, thank you very mauchfor your response !
} >
} > What happens if you type: ESC x redisplay
} > (that is, the escape key, then x, then the word redisplay) and then  
} > hit
} > the return key?  Does that clean it up?
} 
} I do not know that command sequence so I tried several times :)
} 
} [hanno: /home/hanno]>splay
} zsh: command not found: splay

Hrm, something may be is messed up (or at least non-standard) with
your key bindings, because the two keys ESC x should have caused you
to get a new prompt like so:

[hanno: /home/hanno]>
execute: 

At which point you would type "redisplay" and then hit return:

[hanno: /home/hanno]>
execute: redisplay

Instead it appears that the six keys ESC x r e d i are being swallowed
up as a single series.  (This is the sort of thing that it's extremely
difficult to diagnose by email.)

} [hanno: /home/hanno]>r-screen
} zsh: command not found: r-screen

Hrm, part 2.  Where did "r-screen" come from?  Are you running zsh
inside a terminal multiplexer such as "screen"?  Perhaps that is what
is eating some of the input keys.

} [hanno: /home/hanno]>echo $ZSH_VERSION
} 4.3.2

That's recent enough to have minimal multibyte support so the next
question is whether it's compiled in to your copy.  When you run
the command

bindkey -m

do you get a warning about multibyte support being disabled?
 
} I should also mention that the german letters "ä" "ü" and "ö" are  
} also not supported.

Have you tried using the insert-composed-char or insert-unicode-char
functions?  You'll need to install them:

autoload -U insert-composed-char
zle -N insert-composed-char

and then bind them to a convenient key sequence with bindkey.