Re: zsh echoing every statement

[f gr <frgroccia@xxxxxxxxx>]

From Frank Terbeck's message of 2013-05-01T11:36+0200:

> f. gr wrote:
> > Excerpt from James Jong's message
> > of 2013-04-30T17:07-0400:
> > [...]
> >> $ ls
> >> 2;ls --color=yes -aF1;ls./ ../ file1 file2 file3
> >> 
> >> In other words, zsh shows 2;COMMAND 1; and then the output
> >> without line breaks, which is of course very different from what
> >> I was getting with Option 1.
> >> 
> >> What can I do to diagnose the problem? Any pointers would be
> >> greatly appreciated
> >
> > I use grml's zsh setup. I get the output like you: if I run the
> > system by runlevel 1 (or 3) and type the command ls, zsh shows the
> > following:
> > ;root@hostname: ls [without any line breaks]
> 
> Sounds like broken preexec()/precmd() hooks to set terminal titles.
> If you didn't write those yourself, I'd suggest you report it to
> the person who did.
> 
> You can try this to check:
> 
>   % unfunction preexec
>   % unfunction precmd
>   % unset preexec_functions
>   % unset precmd_functions

the first two commands got:
"
unfunction: no such hash table element: preexec
unfunction: no such hash table element: precmd
"

> > As a normal user the same. The curious thing is that when I run
> > the shell by a terminal emulator (in my case xfce4-terminal) the
> > output is OK.
> 
> I happen to know the grml-setup a fair bit, and I think its title
> hooks are fairly solid. If you mess with $TERM however and make the
> setup think it is running in a terminal that would support terminal
> title setting, although it's actually a terminal that doesn't, then
> things like this can happen as well.
> 
> If you still think it's a bug, visit the grml folks on IRC:
> 
>   #grml on the freenode network
> 
> ...and tell them, or report a bug via their bug tracking system:
> 
>   http://bts.grml.org/grml/

I'll ask grml team.