Bug#961102: closed by Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> (Re: Bug#961102: Debian gnome and kde `terminal')

morteza jamareh realjamareh at gmail.com
Sat May 23 12:44:28 BST 2020


Hi
Thanks a lot
I do check it,
best regards

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 3:09 PM Debian Bug Tracking System <
owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the gnome-terminal package:
>
> #961102: Debian gnome and kde `terminal'
>
> It has been closed by Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> 961102: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961102
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
> To: morteza jamareh <realjamareh at gmail.com>, 961102-done at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 11:34:34 +0100
> Subject: Re: Bug#961102: Debian gnome and kde `terminal'
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 10:44:10 +0430, morteza jamareh wrote:
> > There is a frustrating issue on Gnome and KDE terminal.
> > I have tried on both debian stable and testing release.
> > I enter a long command on terminal and after finishing I put arrow UP to
> use
> > that command again the cursor doesn't go to the first character of my
> command.
>
> This is the behaviour of your shell (probably bash, but perhaps something
> else like zsh or tcsh if you have chosen to use a different shell),
> not the terminal. The shell controls the cursor position, the terminal just
> displays what the shell tells it to.
>
> I don't think this is a bug in the shell, either: I think this is
> the shell working the way it is designed to work. In every shell and
> interactive prompt I can remember using (including bash, zsh, Python
> and even the Quake III Arena console), scrolling back through previous
> commands puts the cursor at the end of the line, so that if you are passing
> different final arguments to a long command, you can do something like,
> for example:
>
>     ls -al --color=always --classify /home
>     [Up arrow]/user
>     [Up arrow][Ctrl+W]/tmp
>
> and it will have the effect of:
>
>     ls -al --color=always --classify /home
>     ls -al --color=always --classify /home/user
>     ls -al --color=always --classify /tmp
>
> If the behaviour that you want is (for some reason) that the cursor is
> placed at the beginning of lines recalled from history, then you need
> to choose a shell that is designed to work like that, or can be configured
> to work like that. I don't know whether there are any shells with that
> behaviour in Debian.
>
>     smcv
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: morteza jamareh <realjamareh at gmail.com>
> To: submit at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:44:10 +0430
> Subject: Debian gnome and kde `terminal'
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 3.30.2-2
>
> Hi
> There is a frustrating issue on Gnome and KDE terminal.
> I have tried on both debian stable and testing release.
> I enter a long command on terminal and after finishing I put arrow UP to
> use that command again the cursor doesn't go to the first character of my
> command. The issue has been attached.
> Even when I use Ctrl+r to reverse search on terminal I have the same issue.
> best wishes
>
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